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JavaScript will be killed off by webassembly for about 5 years now

by yen223 2y ago

peutetre 2y ago
The difference lately is the number of tools that are now in place for WebAssembly development and the new extensions to WebAssembly (WasmGC, Memory64, etc.). Despite 28 years of effort at optimization, JavaScript is outperformed by WebAssembly. There's not much coming back from that: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-visualizer-with-webassembly/ https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi... https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-app-for-more-than-8-000-device-types https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-... https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc
- liontwist 2y ago
  ?? JavaScript was outperformed by every language since it was introduced. It doesn’t matter. What matters is what people put in their web pages.
  - peutetre 2y ago
    But now JavaScript is no longer the privileged language in the browser. With WebAssembly every language runs in the browser and runs better.
    - liontwist 2y ago
      And what will prove that is adoption. As others have said, that has been “just around the corner” for years.
- yoelhacks 2y ago
  Javascript is outperformed by WebAssembly in the sense that it runs faster. A lot of things that bring a lot of value to a lot of people are still much, much faster to build via the JS / TS ecosystem. It absolutely makes sense that calculation-heavy workloads will be ported to WASM, but there's a lot more to building an app.
  - peutetre 2y ago
    > but there's a lot more to building an app. Like what? Visual UI designers? WebAssembly's got you covered: https://platform.uno/blog/uno-platform-studio-featuring-hot-design/ https://platform.uno/blog/uno-platform-studio-featuring-hot-... Running Visual Basic in a C# application compiled to WebAssembly? Sure, why not: https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/

JavaScript will be killed off by webassembly for about 5 years now

by yen223 2y ago

JavaScript will be killed off by webassembly for about 5 years now

The difference lately is the number of tools that are now in place for WebAssembly development and the new extensions to WebAssembly (WasmGC, Memory64, etc.). Despite 28 years of effort at optimization, JavaScript is outperformed by WebAssembly. There's not much coming back from that: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-visualizer-with-webassembly/ https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi... https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-app-for-more-than-8-000-device-types https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-... https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc https://web.dev/case-studies/google-sheets-wasmgc

liontwist 2y ago
?? JavaScript was outperformed by every language since it was introduced. It doesn’t matter. What matters is what people put in their web pages.
- peutetre 2y ago
  But now JavaScript is no longer the privileged language in the browser. With WebAssembly every language runs in the browser and runs better.
  - liontwist 2y ago
    And what will prove that is adoption. As others have said, that has been “just around the corner” for years.
yoelhacks 2y ago
Javascript is outperformed by WebAssembly in the sense that it runs faster. A lot of things that bring a lot of value to a lot of people are still much, much faster to build via the JS / TS ecosystem. It absolutely makes sense that calculation-heavy workloads will be ported to WASM, but there's a lot more to building an app.
- peutetre 2y ago
  > but there's a lot more to building an app. Like what? Visual UI designers? WebAssembly's got you covered: https://platform.uno/blog/uno-platform-studio-featuring-hot-design/ https://platform.uno/blog/uno-platform-studio-featuring-hot-... Running Visual Basic in a C# application compiled to WebAssembly? Sure, why not: https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/