alt Hacker NewsOn the contrary, it’s something that solid progress is being made towards, and which has been acknowledged (for better or for worse) as something that they expect to be supported eventually. They’re just taking it slow, to make sure they get it right. But most of the fundamental building blocks are in place now, it’s definitely getting closer.
Aside from everything WASM has ever said, the security issues involved, and all the other evidence and rational considerations this still won’t happen for very human reasons.
The goal behind the argument is to grant WASM DOM access equivalent to what JavaScript has so that WASM can replace JavaScript. Why would you want that? Think about it slowly.
People that write JavaScript for a living, about 99% of them, are afraid of the DOM. Deathly afraid like a bunch of cowards. They spend their entire careers hiding from it through layers of abstractions because programming is too hard. Why do you believe that you would be less afraid of it if only you could do it through WASM?