Re:Grain: WebAssembly-First Programming Language
by bayesian_horse on Friday May 07, 2021 @04:58AM
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At first it's really more attractive something for smaller teams building side projects. Maybe also small sub-components.
When dealing with TypeScript and the usual suspects like React + Redux, or AngularJS and its ilk, what bothers me is all the boilerplate and complexity. TypeScript contains a lot of baggage from Javascript.
A functional, well featured language that doesn't require a humongous runtime as a download (like Python on WASM, which works, but like 40mb to get you started...) might be an attractive solution there.
Re:Grain: WebAssembly-First Programming Language
by brundolf on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:33AM
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On the other hand, there are a host of reasons why the barrier to implementing those things has never been lower
But keep in mind that cost of entry for production usage these days is a full suite of tooling (package manager, code formatter, language server for IDEs, etc).
I didn't see a standout feature in this article on Grain that made me think the manpower investment in developing the language and tooling is worth it, but I could be wrong!