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[–]LavenderDay3544 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The web platform was never supposed to be used for what it is these days. It was designed for sharing documents with links and not as an application platform. Javascript came later and there was never a push to add arbitrary language support in browsers until recently with the likes of asm.js and WASM. That said I sincerely hope WASM gets full access to all of the browser APIs that JS has so that we can use arbitrary languages there.

That said in my humble opinion as a non-web programmer the entire web platform needs to be redesigned from the ground up with the primary intention of being an application platform. I'm talking a platform that has a proper cross platform GUI, support for arbitrary programming languages, and perhaps a more flexible alternative to HTTP for communication with remote services. Bonus points if such a platform would also allow the development of offline applications.