alt Hacker NewsThe folks behind WASM are wilfully blind to the big honking use case that everyone wants (a fully-featured JS replacement, targetable in any language), in favour of an abstract adventure in chasing some ideal Platonic ISA, except there's no obvious market or practical use case for such a thing.
WASM will live and die in the browser. I wish the folks behind it would acknowledge that fact and give it sufficient browser interop to finally render JS unnecessary.
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I see a lot of people declaring that, but I immediately disregard it. In my circles this is a fringe believe. Wasm’s most obvious use case is running x86 binaries in your browser. It is pretty good at that, and that is what most people are using it for. Personally I don‘t see why Wasm needs a different future then the one it is already on.
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> a fully-featured JS replacement, targetable in any language
Any language can target a combination of JS and Wasm, right now, to get a "fully-featured JS replacement". How would adding more features to Wasm improve that situation?