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Re:In web design, everything easy is hard again by randomsearch on Saturday February 10, 2018 @06:27AM (#16346871)
TypeScript has previously been recommended, so I will take a look.

I assume web assembly will bring sanity to the frontend PL world, which will be a step forward.

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Re:In web design, everything easy is hard again by fulafel on Saturday February 10, 2018 @07:24AM (#16347018)
WebAssembly is not an attractive compile target for general web apps in the foreseeable future, it's going to remain a C/Rust thing unless it changes dramatically. JS is a vastly more attractive compile target for managed, GC'd languages.
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Re:In web design, everything easy is hard again by naasking on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:35AM (#16347423)
> WebAssembly is not an attractive compile target for general web apps in the foreseeable future, it's going to remain a C/Rust thing unless it changes dramatically.

How come?

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Re:In web design, everything easy is hard again by machiaweliczny on Sunday February 11, 2018 @03:10PM (#16354493)
It's too simple to support dynamic language features AFAIK.
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Re:In web design, everything easy is hard again by naasking on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:52PM (#16394196)
So are machine instructions. It wouldn't be any harder to build a dynamic language runtime on web assembly than for regular assembly.
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