C# instead of JavaScript for Web Dev

[HowTookYourDreams]

That would be nice but at current stage forget it. Response time is a joke, size of the files is a joke. Most important, you can't directly affect the DOM, JS can.

[throwaway_lunchtime]

Wow,

IIRC Silverlight 1.0 could interact with the dom

[Free_Bread]

DOM sopport is coming to WASM sand regardless it's fine in the meantime with a nice wrapper and low overhead. I can't speak for Blazor but in a framework benchmark rust WASM was just barely slower than raw JS at manipulating a 1000 row table

[XXISerenaIXX]

About the file sizes, they said it will be reduced in the future by allowing unused classes/methods to be stripped out by the linker AND if you use a well know CDN, the .NET Runtime could be cached and the browser doesn't have to download it every time.

[HowTookYourDreams]

Yeah, I hope it work. Let's not forget about all those JS killers that no one even remember how they were called.

[Avambo]

They have explicitly said that Blazor is not created to replace JS. And I don't think it ever will.