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Re:Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly by ChicagoDave on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:34PM (#16317804)
A paradigm shift could happen and what's cool is that it could be entirely something new. This reminds me of the early days of the WWW when the first programming paradigm was Perl/CGI, then Cold Fusion, then Legacy ASP, and then ActiveX, and so on.

The possibility of some company creating, from scratch, a new web development paradigm, given everything we know today, is exciting.

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Re:Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly by jameslk on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:43PM (#16317875)
Sure, and based on historical precedent, that's almost guaranteed to happen. But I doubt it will be whatever-my-favorite-backend-language-of-choice-is and more likely some-domain-specific-language-and-new-framework. In other words, we'll all be relearning everything again 5 years from now.
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Re:Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly by goatlover on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @01:10PM (#16318091)
Java applets were supposed to provide that in the 90s. Netscape was going to actually embed Java in the browser as an alternative to JavaScript, but there wasn't enough time, so they just shipped with JS, and Java was provided via a plugin.
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