The difference lately is the number of tools that are now in place for WebAssemb...

liontwist · 2024-11-19T15:07:26 1732028846

?? 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 · 2024-11-19T20:29:34 1732048174

But now JavaScript is no longer the privileged language in the browser.

With WebAssembly every language runs in the browser and runs better.

liontwist · 2024-11-19T20:51:33 1732049493

And what will prove that is adoption. As others have said, that has been “just around the corner” for years.

yoelhacks · 2024-11-19T19:41:47 1732045307

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 · 2024-11-19T20:41:25 1732048885

> but there's a lot more to building an app.

Running Visual Basic in a C# application compiled to WebAssembly? Sure, why not: https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/