I feel like WASM gets a lot of attention from devs who are like “the web sucks, because JavaScript sucks. I won’t sully myself with such a childish programming language. If there was ever a way to build web apps without JavaScript and I could use [my preferred language] then web development would instantly become a joy and I would be happy doing it”.

Those people seem to get excited at the idea that you could build web apps with a “real compiler”.

But personally I just don’t buy that JavaScript is the reason web development is hard. I think it’s just the natural outcome of the fact that the capabilities of browsers are both varied and ever changing, and therefore the expectations of clients are always changing, and therefore the tooling to be able to (relatively) quickly meet those requirements is always changing.

But we’ll see. Maybe there will be some beautiful, stable web dev framework built on WASM that comes out!