Re:W3C recommends WebAssembly
by camgunz on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:51PM
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Hey, I'm a full stack eng and while I think React is net good, I don't think that's the same thing as "DOM/CSS is bad".
Writing a web application is different than writing a web document (or set of documents). I think what people are anxious about here is that many, if not most, sites are documents or sets of documents, but FE trends are "everything is an app", which leads to difficult situations like "in order to talk to my mom on the Internet, I essentially have to buy into the surveillance state".
We haven't done a good job at letting people do only what they want on the web, because so much of the web has been built by companies with ulterior motives. What people are worried about here--and this is true whether we're talking about WASM, Flash, Java Applets, Silverlight, etc.--is this is a giant leap down the road to a co-opted web, devoid of user choice and controlled entirely by moneyed or state interests.
Personally I feel like this happened a long time ago, so WASM doesn't worry me any more than I already am. But I think it's important to keep in mind more is at stake here than CSS-in-JS, or any one FE's career.
Writing a web application is different than writing a web document (or set of documents). I think what people are anxious about here is that many, if not most, sites are documents or sets of documents, but FE trends are "everything is an app", which leads to difficult situations like "in order to talk to my mom on the Internet, I essentially have to buy into the surveillance state".
We haven't done a good job at letting people do only what they want on the web, because so much of the web has been built by companies with ulterior motives. What people are worried about here--and this is true whether we're talking about WASM, Flash, Java Applets, Silverlight, etc.--is this is a giant leap down the road to a co-opted web, devoid of user choice and controlled entirely by moneyed or state interests.
Personally I feel like this happened a long time ago, so WASM doesn't worry me any more than I already am. But I think it's important to keep in mind more is at stake here than CSS-in-JS, or any one FE's career.