alt Hacker NewsIt's a chicken egg situation. The people already using WASM either don't care about the DOM or had realized long ago that going through a JS shim works just as well, the rest just complain time and time again that WASM has no DOM access whenever there's a HN thread about WASM, but usually don't even use WASM for anything.
Especially if there was major momentum of people writing their web applications with wasm, there would be a reason to eventually get that massive undertaking of creating the ABI for that working. Then all those applications could just recompile to make use of this new hypothetically faster API. The bigger issue here is that it just doesn't make any sense to write frontend code in rust or go or whatever in the first place.
The whole js ecosystem evolved to become a damn good environment to write UIs with, people don't know the massive complexity this environment evolved to solve over decades.