What do you guys feel about wasm?

Great, I wasm at least 3 times a day

I think it's great that by now it's supported by all browser, so I think that now you can build better web apps without javascript or languages that are built on it.
Currently the overall experience coding with wasm is not satisfying.
I hope that I can make an enviroment were I can code in Kotlin/Native and use VueJS. The only problem is that I have to code Kotlin/Native seperated from VueJS, because I have to first compile it into wasm and then Vue can use it. https://github.com/ballercat/...

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Useful as an implementation. It’ll allow web browsers to do even more and extends their functionality by a big margin.

The only umbrage I take with WASM is how it is perceived by certain... Let’s just call them fanny flaps.

These people hail it as the be-all-end-all of JavaScript as the scripting language of the web - they essentially treat web development as a zero-sum equation. Because fact is that Assembly is currently still more complicated when programming webpage operations, compared to JavaScript. As such I doubt JS’ position as the scripting language of the web is going to be contested quite yet. That’s not to say they can’t coexist too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh and don’t even get me started on the need to compile the things...

@linuswillner I'm borrowing fanny flaps. I so need this in my vocabulary

@jAsE 🤨 I hope that's a joke

People who think it's going to be the end of JS don't get that some people *like* js. Case in point: node.js

@jAsE Because the one hasn't anything to do with the other.

@chasb96 the thing is that some people are like "hurr Durr nobody's gonna use js anymore they'll just compile a better language to wasm". There was this nice talk by the wat guy about this but the whole talk was basically just that. And the whole time he pronounced it YavaScript

@chasb96 As @vityavv said, that’s the thing - it most likely won’t replace JS. Doesn’t stop some bell-ends from thinking that way though...