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Discussion on: Will the web ever evolve past JavaScript?

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Brian Kephart

Ever since I heard about WebAssembly I've been hoping it would make writing web frontend in non-JS languages possible. It would be fantastic to have language tools for the frontend as diverse as we do for the backend.

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Richard Ivan

What tools do you have in mind? I'm quite happy with the tools I have but that's probably because I've not done too much backend.

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Brian Kephart

There’s plenty of tools, but they’re all written in JS, or dialects of JS, or compile to JS (generally with a performance penalty, if the language isn’t closely related to JS to begin with). The promise of WASM that excites me is using non-JS languages with less compromise.