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A comment on Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development?.

Re:Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development? by emilsedgh on Friday August 12, 2016 @07:19AM (#12274673)
I don't think WebAssembly is going to revolutionize front end development.

What you can do with WebAssembly regarding front-end development is running your Qt/GTK+ type of programs on web.

But noone is interested in that. As a matter of fact, current trend seems to be ditching that sort of program on desktops and using HTML/JS/CSS stack for desktops as well (atom, slack, etc) because its much easier to create a top-notch UX using HTML stack.

HTML stack is very resilient. It evolves at a fast pace. Don't underestimate it.

WebAssembly will definitely have its own use case in the future (games, apps with specific performance requirements) but its not replacing frontend development.

Regarding backend, its not going away. Serverless doesn't mean backend-less. It means backend deployed in a very distributed fashion.

I personally think backends will be thinner and thinner as databases gain more responsibility an functionality.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development? by douche on Friday August 12, 2016 @07:27AM (#12274700)
From my perspective, the whole point of WebAssembly is to produce a decent intermediate target, so that we can stop fucking around with Javascript that is so, so broken, and write in more powerful, safe languages.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development? by rimantas on Friday August 12, 2016 @08:08AM (#12274916) 

  > It evolves at a fast pace.
It REvolves at a fast pace. In place.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development? by T-A on Friday August 12, 2016 @09:44AM (#12275530)
> because its much easier to create a top-notch UX using HTML stack

No, because it's what the hordes of inexpensive web developers know how to use.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development? by awolden on Friday August 12, 2016 @11:58AM (#12276650)
> inexpensive web developers

Ask most companies how much they are spending on their web-dev teams and they might disagree with you on that one

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Re:Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development? by T-A on Friday August 12, 2016 @01:26PM (#12277293)
Web Developer Salary Range: http://www.itcareerfinder.com/brain-food/it-salaries/web-dev...

Software Engineer Salary Range: http://www.itcareerfinder.com/brain-food/it-salaries/compute...

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