Post by @PunishedD@clubcyberia.co

2026-04-27 13:17 UTC

@deprecated_ii@poa.st I object, WASM is an actual new capability. Right now it's being used as much as JS was being used when it first came out, with the same "don't use it!" best practices recommendations. We'll see how long that lasts. Webshit is shit because they aren't actually targeting the web, they're targeting browsers and mobile. The web turned into an abstract API, the Internet itself is middleware. On one end is a browser, on the other is a database, everything in between is a nebulous cloud. All the shit frameworks are the web equivalent of hiding that architecture behind "dev experience".

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@deprecated_ii@poa.st 2026-04-27 13:32

@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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@i@declin.eu 2026-04-27 13:25

@PunishedD@clubcyberia.co @deprecated_ii@poa.st and soon enough people will ship webgpu/wasm blobs with https://wicg.github.io/html-in-canvas/

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