WASM should kill JS.
Furthermore, we should break outdated browsers.
There is no excuse. You say a massive 2% of your visitors use those?
Well, they can install a normal browser. And these days they can do it without having admin privileges. (Which they probably do have, contrary to best practices.)
If you are Facebook-scale, you can ship different bundles to different browsers, and seamlessly degrade/hide features in the UI. The 2% represent so many people that they can pay for myriads of full-time developers for just that aspect.
But if you are a small startup and you invest too heavily into backwards-compatibility? All of your users will suffer.
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WASM should kill JS.
Furthermore, we should break outdated browsers.
There is no excuse. You say a massive 2% of your visitors use those?
Well, they can install a normal browser. And these days they can do it without having admin privileges. (Which they probably do have, contrary to best practices.)
If you are Facebook-scale, you can ship different bundles to different browsers, and seamlessly degrade/hide features in the UI. The 2% represent so many people that they can pay for myriads of full-time developers for just that aspect.
But if you are a small startup and you invest too heavily into backwards-compatibility? All of your users will suffer.