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Re:Web Assembly and Go: A look to the future by marcosdumay on Saturday June 23, 2018 @05:47PM (#17383634)
> Who can build a single framework providing a small set of abstractions (learnable in 6-12 weeks from scratch) that allows for both front-end and back-end development?

Remeber the desktop RAD platforms, like Delphi and Visual Basic? There is no reason we couldn't have very similar things on the web.

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Re:Web Assembly and Go: A look to the future by meredydd on Saturday June 23, 2018 @06:36PM (#17383821)
Obligatory plug: we've built one!

https://anvil.works - it's explicitly modeled on VB6/Delphi. All Python (front and back end, with a simple RPC interface from client to server), and learnable in a lot less than 6 weeks. Check it out!

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