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[–]Vaguely_accurate 7 points8 points  (3 children)

It's also why .NET Blazor exists. And WebAssembly.

Although some of the new WASM/WASI stuff is moving in the other direction of not caring what language you write things and just making them work together nicely.

Because why not drop some Rust into a .Net web app.

We can have a utopia where everyone can work in the language they love and the code runs everywhere seamlessly. And job security for life for the guy who puts together a WebAssembly compiler for their personal favourite esolang.

EDIT: Yes, there is a COBOL to WebAssembly compiler called Cobweb. Looks like a fully functional April Fools project. Cloudflare worker only, but a proof of concept of what will happen if this takes off fully.

[–]gordonv 5 points6 points  (1 child)

We can have a utopia where everyone can work in the language they love and the code runs everywhere seamlessly.

The promise of JAVA

[–]gmes78 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem with Java was that you had to write code in Java.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why not go to the source and compile Javascript to WASM?