I mean, you are obviously entitely to your opinion, but folks have been solving this stuff the hard, glue-based way for ages now, and are using WASM wherever there is an advantage to do so. Getting rid of the glue layer and the associated performance problems can only accelerate those efforts

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pizlonator 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> I mean, you are obviously entitely to your opinion

I'm trying to explain to you why attempts to make wasm mainstream have failed so far, and are likely to continue to fail.

I'm not expressing an "opinion"; I'm give you the inside baseball as a browser engineer.

> Getting rid of the glue layer

I'm trying to elucidate why that glue layer is inherent, and why JS is the language that has ended up dominating web development, despite the fact that lots of "obviously better" languages have gone head to head with it (Java, Dart sort of, and now wasm).

Just like Java is a fantastic language anywhere but the web, wasm seems to be a fantastic sandboxing platform in lots of places other than the web. I'm not trying to troll you folks; I'm just sharing the insight of why wasm hasn't worked out so far in browsers and why that's likely to continue

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swiftcoder 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> why JS is the language that has ended up dominating web development

JS was dominating web development long before WASM gained steam. This isn't the same situation as "JS beating Java/ActivX for control of the web" (if I follow the thrust of your argument correctly).

WASM has had less than a decade of widespread browser support, terrible no-good DevEx for basically the whole time, and it's still steadily making it's way into more and more of the web.

	▲	pizlonator 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		WebAssembly has had extraordinary levels of investment from browser devs and the broader community. > terrible no-good DevEx for basically the whole time I'm telling you why. > still steadily making it's way into more and more of the web. It is, but you can still browser the web without it just fine, despite so much investment and (judging by how HN reacts to it) overwhelming enthusiasm from devs