There's a hope in webassembly

geebee · on Nov 16, 2016

Very interesting, I read a bit about it. Up to now, I was mainly watching systems like volt. A bit too cutting edge for me right now, but I love what they're doing. I'm hesitant to make tech predictions, since what usually happens is something you didn't see coming all, but I'm still figuring transpiled ruby/python/whateveryoulike to javascript will emerge.

I'll dig more into webassembly when I get the chance.

spinlock · on Nov 17, 2016

Can we admit that we hope wasm kills JavaScript yet?

lightblade · on Nov 17, 2016

That'll probably never catch on. Front end dev already have 10 frameworks and 5 browsers to worry about. Let's not add 10 more languages for a total of 500 different combinations.

scottmf · on Nov 17, 2016

500 combinations of what? Other platforms too have n languages and n frameworks and so on. We'll be fine.

I'm quite sure it will catch on with Apple, Google, Mozilla and Microsoft working on it.

I'm intrigued by the server side Swift frameworks coming out right now. If they could replace JS on the server and browser that could be interesting.