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Mozilla (Eich) wrote JS, and specifically Microsoft wrote the XMLHttpRequest, which allowed Google to exist. And supposedly WASM is to be that thing, so any lan

Mozilla (Eich) wrote JS, and specifically Microsoft wrote the XMLHttpRequest, which allowed Google to exist. And supposedly WASM is to be that thing, so any language can compile down to it. Hasn't totally worked out I guess. A browser would have to take the leap to be WASM-only, and compile even JS to it. I'm doing backend work mostly right now. If I start some other project, I'll probably try using htmx and tailwindcss as my two js script tags, and the rest will be controlled from the backend.

999900000999 2y ago
I'm more thinking Chrome could ship with a Golang/Dart VM where apps could run. WASM is neat though. Tends to ship with mega blobs for now
- BrendanEich 2y ago
  See https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1260733952160985089 https://x.com/BrendanEich/status/1260733952160985089. Google, especially with the antitrust trouble they are in, is not going to try for an "ActiveX redux" act here. They definitively renounced trying to ram Dart into the Web standards here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150328124454/https://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150328124454/https://news.dart... (yes, they took it down so Wayback to the rescue) The GC barrier overhead is too damn high!