Re:WebAssembly’s post-MVP future
by marcosdumay on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:26PM
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I don't really see a need of replacing the DOM. It has some problems, but nearly everything around has at least as many problems, just different ones. Indeed, that's the reason I want to see WASM interact well with it.
The largest problems of the web programming are lack of componentization and Javascript, we may be able to solve that last one soon!
The thing with JS is that it is a no batteries, no novelty, no shortcut, not very productive language, that manages to be both old-school and novel on all the bad ways. You can't just carelessly gather code and use it, because there are no safety boundaries; most code that is not at the frontend (yeah, like Apollo) have no consideration about security, so you can't simply expose it; the entire ecosystem is a house of cards; and the language itself is a pile of WTFs just waiting for you to discover another one.
Besides, the web stack is pretty much controlled by Google nowadays. Yes, they manage development resources better than Microsoft, but I would prefer working on a stable and free environment.
The largest problems of the web programming are lack of componentization and Javascript, we may be able to solve that last one soon!
The thing with JS is that it is a no batteries, no novelty, no shortcut, not very productive language, that manages to be both old-school and novel on all the bad ways. You can't just carelessly gather code and use it, because there are no safety boundaries; most code that is not at the frontend (yeah, like Apollo) have no consideration about security, so you can't simply expose it; the entire ecosystem is a house of cards; and the language itself is a pile of WTFs just waiting for you to discover another one.
Besides, the web stack is pretty much controlled by Google nowadays. Yes, they manage development resources better than Microsoft, but I would prefer working on a stable and free environment.