web development - We need a new flash like plugin to rival javascript - devRant

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C0D4

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Didn't they call it silverlight?
That ended well too.

We are doomed to carry JavaScript to our graves, might as well embrace it.
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Commodore

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Isn't Web assembly enough for you?
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Codex404

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Why a plugin, when one can use Rust, C#, C++ and more languages in a browser already?
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C0D4

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@Codex404 correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't wasm run as JS anyway?

Which if I'm right, is throwing a giant level of abstraction in place just so you don't have to write JS.
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gronostaj

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@C0D4 No, it's running in a dedicated VM. You need to use JS as an entrypoint, but as soon as you're in wasm code, you have all the low-level performance goodness.
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Codex404

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@C0D4 nope, its actual compiled code running in the browser. Interfaces by javascript but when using a framework like Blazor then there is no need for javascript at all (the framework handles it for you)
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Pogromist

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PPAPI

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