Comment by trusktr

> I do wonder whether some respondents are incorrectly identifying AssemblyScript as JavaScript?

Perhaps we should include HTML and CSS in the list of languages to choose from next year! :P

I picked JavaScript thinking of AssemblyScript as a tool (not a language) to use JavaScript (with types) as a language compiled to WebAssembly. Maybe the results are not accurate.

I also use Wasm for web (the largest category of use so far) and would not use a JavaScript engine inside Wasm to talk to plain JavaScript in a browser (I don't think any web developer would hehe).

Perhaps the survey should have an option to choose

"JavaScript running in a JavaScript engine inside WebAssembly",

and

"JavaScript compiled to WebAssembly",

to make the results clear as to which "JavaScript" people are using.

Does a JavaScript engine inside WebAssembly even count as a "WebAssembly language"? Or is that C++ and Rust actually?

Does running a browser in WebAssembly make HTML and CSS WebAssembly languages too?

I think that NEAR users just use the SDK, I don't think the users chose JS specifically for it to be in Wasm.