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shevy-javalast Friday at 8:34 AM0 repliesview on HN

I am kind of disappointed with regard to WebAssembly.

There were several articles that promoted it heavily - aka the hype phase.

And then ... nothing really materialized. If you look at, for instance, ruby WASM, https://github.com/ruby/ruby.wasm - there is virtually zero real documentation. Granted, this is a specific problem of ruby, and japanese devs not understanding english; but when you search for webassembly, contrast it to the numerous tutorials we have with regards to HTML, CSS, JavaScript. I get it, it is younger, it is harder than the other three tech stacks, but virtually nothing really improves here. It is like a borne-dead technology that has only a tiny niche, e. g. Rust developers. That's about it. And I fear this is also not going to change anymore. After a while, if the hype fails to deliver, people will lose interest - and a technology will eventually subside. That also happened to e. g. XHTML and the heavy use of XML in general in, say, 2000. I also don't think WebAssembly can be brought back now that the hype stage went off.