> The future of scripting languages is browser JavaScript.
No. I'd wager it's much more likely _any scripting language but JavaScript_. Statistically speaking it's probably Python, though I wouldn't love that universe either, being a Rubyist.
Browser JavaScript has 30 years of technical debt in the form of the general inability to make non-backwards-compatible breaking changes lest half of web pages stop executing properly. This has been a boon for legacy code, but the language itself has languished for so long and in so many ways. It shouldn't be anyone's North Star, especially given a choice. Web Assembly gives us real choices, and I think it will eventually result in the end of JS's dominance in frontend when we all come to our senses and support improves a bit more.
No. I'd wager it's much more likely _any scripting language but JavaScript_. Statistically speaking it's probably Python, though I wouldn't love that universe either, being a Rubyist.
Browser JavaScript has 30 years of technical debt in the form of the general inability to make non-backwards-compatible breaking changes lest half of web pages stop executing properly. This has been a boon for legacy code, but the language itself has languished for so long and in so many ways. It shouldn't be anyone's North Star, especially given a choice. Web Assembly gives us real choices, and I think it will eventually result in the end of JS's dominance in frontend when we all come to our senses and support improves a bit more.