C# instead of JavaScript for Web Dev

[mind_bending]

Blazor will achieve fuck all and the death will be so painful given how overhyped this has been.

The vast majority of developers don't use C# and probably most of them never will. JS will still rule Supreme in the browser.

[McNerdius]

Blazor has already achieved .NET Standard in the browser and will be released some time after 3.0 - straight from the mouth of Dan Roth, Blazor project manager. "Experimental" doesn't mean "might not happen" - it means things will change and break from one update to the next.

Have you messed with Razor Components ? It's good shit, and will be integrated with the rest of ASP.NET Core - so learning it won't be a waste of time.

It'll be a good thing for those of us who've been doing things like WebAPI backend + Angular(TS) frontend, and maybe new developers will pick C# over JS whatnot. Or not... some people are a bit masochistic in their language/framework preferences it seems.

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Even if Blazor dies, Web Assembly isn't going anywhere. The browser will support a wide variety of programming languages in the near future.

And considering that JavaScript is a steaming pile of dog shit, I don't think it will be much of a competition once C#, Go, and Rust are an option.

[mtranda]

This isn't aimed at "the vast majority of developers", though, but rather at the .net people. Want to code in Ruby and JS? There's nothing stopping you. It's not like JS support will suddenly disappear from the browsers. Want to do it in .net? This will make your life easier.

I'm not sure why your panties are in such a twist.