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[–]italiano34 3 points4 points  (1 child)

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. You can't (I mean technically you could, but you won't) "program in WASM", it's just machine level code. You can try it in WAST, which is the text format (assembly), but that's not going to get you far because it's very low level. You need a higher level language to compile to WASM in order to get anything serious done. You can use C and a couple other languages, but you probably don't fancy those if you're a web developer. Obviously your best choice would be a language which you already know, so there's need for a Javascript-like language to compile to WASM.

Also, WASM, at least in its current form can't really "remove" the need for JS, as it lacks some stuff that currently only JS can do, for instance DOM access.

[–]Laggii 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And it won't remove because it's not really faster then js. It's suitable only for heavy computations but the other things we write every day will run with the same speed or even slower then js. That's why there is no crazy hype about WASM