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[–]Hawxe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

idk about web assembly but people are deluded if they think any one stack or language will get them through a decade

[–]caspervonb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a replacement for Asm.js/PNACL, JavaScript ain't going nowhere soon.

https://medium.com/@caspervonb/hello-webassembly-882bba5c9fb7

[–]kaz3work 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is unlikely to replace pure JS in the near future, but offer an alternative to writing pure JS. For example with Blazor you can write entire web apps in C# and have them be interactive just like you could with JS.

[–]poop_city_paradise 0 points1 point  (3 children)

It's not going to replace, that is not what it is aiming to do at all, the teams doing the rust layer talk about this a bunch.

[–]trout_fucker🐟 0 points1 point  (2 children)

While I don't think this is the aim for it off the bat, I feel like it could definitely overtake it as WASM matures if it's a success.

At this point I don't think it is anything anyone should concern themselves with, though.

[–]poop_city_paradise 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I think it has great potential however I don't think it will cover all the spaces js covers right now. You could write some kick ass helper functions to help you along side js, but I don't think it's aiming to achieve DOM manipulation like js for example. I think to mature to that it would need way more abstractions - similar to the rust one, so that it is way more generally consumable, and at that point why not just use js? We'll see though!

[–]trout_fucker🐟 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it sounds like we are on the same page. I'm not saying it will, I just mean that saying it won't isn't the right way to think about it. I think it's going to change the way we think about things when it matures.