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I expected a fluff article by a high level JavaScript programmer buying into all the optimistic promises of WebAssembly.

Instead, this is actually one of the best articles I've read about WebAssembly. The author approaches it from a C/C++ background and investigates what it means to write applications from that mindset, revealing the huge limitations of asm.js. Then the author turns to WebAssembly and gives a sobering look of how immature that project still is.

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You mixed it up. Actually, it's usually "high level JavaScript programmers" who are "trying to reveal the huge limitations". Because they are not happy with the fact something else can be used for client-side web-development other than JS.

I'm really disturbed by this clueless Javascript developer stereotype being repeated over and over. I know there are many more beginners in the js world than others but any time there's a js alternative being discussed, I read comments in the tune of "haha now js developers will be useless finally" and then I wonder who is being threatened by whom.

Please be more welcoming. We don't have enough programmers, no one is taking anyone's jobs away.

What kind of stereotype are you talking about? I said nothing about "usefulness" or whatever. And I cannot care less about jobs. I shared my observation that I'd never seen JS developers "buying into all the optimistic promises" [of WASM]. At the same time I see a lot of discussions about how "WebAssembly is a step in the wrong direction" from "experts" who haven't even managed to read WebAssembly's FAQ. Do people who have invested their time into learning JS think that WASM is a threat for them?

Utter lies. There are plenty of programmers around.

I'm not sure that follows. It's increasingly difficult to hire skilled developers.

Hahaha. Downvote me all you like but experience agrees with my statement. There must be enough programmers or at least a sufficient so that employers looking can skim off the cream.

What they are all looking for are savant developers who can code a new linux in a day, who will do that for a pittance, who are willing to work 100 hours per week, who want to work at some bullshit web startup which hopes to be just disruptive enough that they get bought out. Any lesser people are outright ignored.

This requires stuffing hordes of people though education/training in the hope that just a few gems will be created.

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