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Ask HN: What is the future of back-end development?

Apparently, WebAssembly will revolutionize the client-side development. The web apps will be very much like desktop ones: high performing, can be written in any language. At the same time they are cross platform, can be easily distributed, and do not require installation.

Meanwhile, every "builder of web3.0" who's trying to "fix the Internet", or "make the web faster, safer, and more open" is doing it in such a way that back-end development is not required. I.e. they are working on decentralized (either p2p or federated) universal back-ends that they assume should be used by everyone.

Do you believe that in future the back-end development as we know it today will be obsolete as everybody will use some p2p BaaS platform and the web-development will be all about implementing client-side apps?

177 points johnnydoebk 10 years ago 156 comments

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