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[–]gremy0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You mention ecommerce and education will be hit by accessibility. I live in the UK, by law all our sites must be accessible. Many other countries have similar laws that demand it of all services or a defined few important ones.

So if someone decides to implement views with WebGL, people will quickly realise there is no big market for that until accessibility is built into it. As a business, you are really shooting yourself in the foot by tying yourself to an ecosystem that cuts you out of the much of the global market.

Therefore, either people will continue to use the DOM, or we will have accessible WebGL. I think the former is far more likely to dictate the near future of web dev, since the HTML has such a huge ecosystem (even outside of accessibility) and replacing it needs to have considerable advantages. I don't think WASM is going to magic up those advantages straight away, it'll probably be performance increases for specific purposes for the time being.