To all JavaScript devs in here, what are your current feelings toward the emergence of WebAssembly?

And to all devs in general, for that matter.

I say it's really awesome, browsers can squeeze out more performance out of your machine, and support for more languages that can compile to WA is always welcome (once it gets a GC). I hope the electronJS community takes this as an opportunity to improve their app performance

Despite all flaws of javascript it should stay the dominant language. Webassembly can be used if you need more performance.

There already is a react-like rust-framework out there that gets embedded via webassembly. Lets see how that turns out.

I'm eagerly awaiting the day when I can forget about JavaScript. But will probably have to wait a while 😣

@towmeykaw I am in the same boat as you

@towmeykaw @theredcameron what about giving js a BIG overhaul? I know javascript can be a fucking hell, but i like promises, async execution and functional programming (to a certain extent)

@YouAreAPIRate If we gave javascript a major overhaul, I think a lot of people would argue against things like promises and 'async' execution. Otherwise it might just be the same thing for many people. The reason many people are wanting to go to WebAssembly (myself included), is because they want to get away from those types of operations and prefer static typing.