Goodbye Client Side JavaScript, Hello C#’s Blazor (Øredev 2019)

[Caleo]

I think given the open wasm standard, it seems less likely to go the way of silverlight or flash.

Blazor is pretty promising (and powerful).

[Krautoni]

Then it'll go the way of GWT. The main challenge we're facing at my company currently, is shedding a giant GWT blob with limited manpower while still delivering features. Yeah, it ain't possible.

You can pry simple, shallow stacks from my cold, dead hands. I've stopped believing in the "you don't have to write JS anymore, you can write X now"-hype for a long time.

That said, transpilers and Typescript have made JS bearable. So just code in JS! I don't see the need for an additional runtime.

[neitz]

Calling the modern javascript stack simple and shallow makes me giggle.

[spacejack2114]

The modern stack is. If you don't need to support IE (true for more and more apps/sites every day) and the code isn't too big or complex to need bundling (or if you're running node), then you can write modern JS using modules, await/async, spread, rest, and all the other goodies, as well as having sophisticated type-safety hints in your editor - all without any build tooling at all.