I predict WebAssembly will eventually overtake how front-end development is today, and a whole new world will evolve. I have heard this with great emotion for

I predict WebAssembly will eventually overtake how front-end development is today, and a whole new world will evolve. I have heard this with great emotion for at least 6 years now and nothing. It’s starting to look like bitcoin: all these dreams and ideals that come to nothing in practice but a Ponzi scheme. The funny thing is that it clearly indicates nobody know what they are doing. People advocating for WASM want DOM bindings because the DOM is great and JavaScript is the great evil. Most people who actually write JavaScript professionally feel equally about the DOM, a great evil, and so they are completely reliant on some massive framework to justify the their existence.