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Despite the existence of WebAssembly, which some have suggested to be able to run a non-JS language, I just have a hard time seeing anything non-JS get popular

by MBCook 3y ago

Despite the existence of WebAssembly, which some have suggested to be able to run a non-JS language, I just have a hard time seeing anything non-JS get popular for the web. The in browser debug/development environment just works too well. Short of Google implementing something if Chrome hits 85-90% of all use in an attempt to dump JS it just doesn’t seem like something that would happen. I doubt any browser team would want to implement multiple languages. I doubt Google would want to switch.

baja_blast 3y ago
For Python to work in the browser via WebAssembly you'd need to have python itself compiled and running to execute python. It would consume a lot of energy and be much slower, I see no upsides. WebAssembly is meant to have lower level languages and programs run in the browser, not so Python devs do not have to learn a second language. Plus Python is not suited for event driven systems.