> Without downplaying all the effort being put into this > Websites do more or less the same thing they did 15 years ago That is a huge downplay if anything :

> Without downplaying all the effort being put into this > Websites do more or less the same thing they did 15 years ago That is a huge downplay if anything :) Websites certainly does the same they always done, the difference nowadays is that there are web apps too, interactive applications, which existed 15 years ago sure, but they didn't have the same scale as today. But, most web apps today should just be websites, but there are some use cases for web apps too, although they are few. Once you start to understand there is a difference between websites and web apps, things start to make sense. There is still a huge misuse of making things into web apps, but at least you start to understand why the ecosystem moves in a direction you seemingly don't grasp. > It's time to move away from HTML/CSS/JS. They worked great for as long as they did but instead of further contributing to the mess that they've become, we should be looking into alternatives. There is huge efforts into this already, which you also seem to have missed. The whole WASM effort is about being able to write code for browsers in any language you want, and it's already usable today. It's missing some vital things like DOM manipulation to be 100x more useful, but again, still useful today. Lots of games are written in Rust and deployed as WASM for example, runnable in the browser.