Post by @deprecated_ii@poa.st

2026-04-27 13:32 UTC

@PunishedD@clubcyberia.co web assembly came out in 2017, before most web developers today wrote their first 50 megabyte todo app. it's never going to gain traction as a primary tool because webshits simply can't work at that level. of course it will be *used* by the few truly competent people making tools for the rest of the webshits. that doesn't really count webshits are dependent on frameworks because they abstract the stuff that's slightly difficult when it's done directly. they're not programmers in a general sense, they're "[framework] developers" who can't write even simple programs without their framework see: anthropic using react for CLI programs. literally the only tool they can use

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@PunishedD@clubcyberia.co 2026-04-27 14:16

@deprecated_ii@poa.st Yeah, WASM came out 9 years ago. It took 10 years of Javascript being around before Ajax was released and destroyed the web. Not saying it WILL get as big, I think JS will bequeath it the same legacy holding-back problem that HTML/DOM gave JS. But the capability is new, and legitimate. I guess it doesn't matter too much why framework devs are shit, they still are. The commenter in OP is dumb to compare new frameworks with new language features, yes. But from their perspective the post-2005 web was a deployment platform with almost zero libraries. The speed of new frameworks coming out should be analogous to the speed of C libraries or implementations coming out back when it was new. They're shitty devs because they didn't handle the speed as well as C devs did.

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