> I would put money JS staying as is and WASM will be the web story moving forward Ditto. WASM needs just 1 piece to be pretty much widely generalizable, GC.

> I would put money JS staying as is and WASM will be the web story moving forward Ditto. WASM needs just 1 piece to be pretty much widely generalizable, GC. Once that happens, things will get pretty exciting. Access to a platform garbage collector will allow pretty much any language imaginable ship to WASM with some pretty minimal runtime overhead. And GC for WASM is due to hit pretty soon. I'm looking forward to the revival of Applets :D [1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/MVP.md https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/blob/main/proposals/gc/MVP...