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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by bobthepanda on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:29PM (#27166623)
WASM is supposed to unlock non-Javascript for the browser, no?

Also there have been attempts before but nothing really stuck. How many non-Googlers use Dart?

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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by echelon on Saturday May 15, 2021 @01:29PM (#27167147)
You can write Rust for the frontend right now. It's pretty neat.

Yew [1] is one of the early Rust frameworks for client side work. It allows for multi-threaded (!) execution and javascript interop.

Not many other languages make sense as you have to pack in the whole runtime, GC, etc. Rust is pretty well positioned for WASM, and it's going to take off soon.

[1] https://github.com/yewstack/yew

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Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10... by irrational on Saturday May 15, 2021 @01:27PM (#27167121)
No? WASM doesn't replace JavaScript. Think of it as a high-performance library that JavaScript can make use of.
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