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> And will JavaScript as we know it survive if it does? IMO yes, for two reasons: 1. a lot of people like coding in JS! I know, anathema. But having coded in
by afavour 4y ago
> And will JavaScript as we know it survive if it does?
IMO yes, for two reasons:
1. a lot of people like coding in JS! I know, anathema. But having coded in both JS and Rust I know which one is going to be more acceptable to the largest audience of developers. There's a reason Node got as popular as it has.
2. libraries. I'm sure there will be plenty of people doing DOM manipulation via WASM but if there are going to be a limited number of libraries you can pull off the shelf to do it. By comparison JS is always going to have a ton (arguably too many, but still). But I'm sure Microsoft won't be able to resist raising the ghost of WebForms to make something that actually does run .NET in the browser.