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codelikeawolflast Friday at 5:48 PM3 repliesview on HN

> Do that and frontend web-apps will throw JS into the gutter within a decade.

Why though? What's wrong with JS? I feel like it's gotten a lot better over the years. I don't really understand all the hate.


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homarplast Friday at 7:31 PM

it is not hate. It is same reason people likes node on the backend: one language to do eveything.

Wasm with 'fast' DOM manipulation opens the door to every language compiling to wasm to be used to build a web app that renders HTML.

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tpmlast Friday at 6:20 PM

> What's wrong with JS?

Let's not go into that for the millionth time and instead perhaps ask yourself why is TS wildly successful and even before that everyone was trying to use anything-but-js.

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SR2Zlast Friday at 6:36 PM

Then why not allow WASM to access the DOM?

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