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AssemblyScript can't access the dom without interfacing with Javascript which is a major piece that needs to be solved with wasm generally. I'm arguing we shou

AssemblyScript can't access the dom without interfacing with Javascript which is a major piece that needs to be solved with wasm generally. I'm arguing we should have invented a new native language to replace javascript, which could have provided a stop-gap solution until wasm targeted languages are viable.

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flohofwoe 2y ago
> which is a major piece that needs to be solved with wasm generally. I use WASM everyday and I don't agree that this is anywhere near the top of the things that need to be fixed. The DOM is inherently slow by design, accessing it through a JS shim or "directly" from WASM really wouldn't make any difference in performance. And on the language level, the DOM is just another web API accessed through a wrapper library like https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/dom.html https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/dom.html. Also the "fixed" Javascript is called Typescript (maybe combined with a very strict linter).