> The OP was no doubt alluding to Javascript providing better developer ergonomics much like virtual DOM solutions have done over 'raw' DOM manipulation. Were

> The OP was no doubt alluding to Javascript providing better developer ergonomics much like virtual DOM solutions have done over 'raw' DOM manipulation. Were they? Alternative interpretations abound. "Raw WASM" implies that they were sarcastically saying the virtual DOM makes things a whole lot easier, and if all you care about is performance you might as well hand write a bunch of assembly. Another interpretation would be that the whole DOM is inefficient, so you might as well transpile some kind of native toolkit to a WASM engine. There are a lot of different interpretations for that pithy sentence. Does raw mean written by hand or does it mean not using DOM bindings?