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We don’t have to be stuck with it forever. Start pushing WASM instead of React, etc. We can get there, but as technologists we have to make a concerted effort t
by GiorgioG 2y ago
We don’t have to be stuck with it forever. Start pushing WASM instead of React, etc. We can get there, but as technologists we have to make a concerted effort to do so.
- adastra22 2y agoWe will still be stuck with it forever for compatibility reasons
- auggierose 2y agoWASM instead of React? That does not even make sense.
- pjmlp 2y agoOnly if the tooling was half as good as Flash.
- adamc 2y agoBut the essay lays out the reality: For WASM to replace JavaScript, it needs to be better (in the sense of easy to adopt, solves a problem right now) every step of the way. That is not, as yet, true.
- jll29 2y agoThe task of devising a novel application model for distributed Web applications is left to the reader as an exercise. (It's not _just_ JavaScript that one should get rid off, but the abuse of the whole HTML+X set of stacks to implement interactive Web applications. There must be a better way than HTML/CGI, HTML/XML, Java applets etc.; WASM could be part of a solution, but not a solution in itself., as there should be standard UI elements etc.)