Studying Java/Spring after several years of JavaScript inspired me this

[normal sun]

Javascript is miserable for me 😭

I'm struggling to get web workers to play nice with WASM right now, LOL

[worn topaz]

I agree to say that I don't give a damn about JS in the long term...

[worn topaz]

and I thought I could do a good deed today 🥲

[normal sun]

Sadly it's not going away any time soon

[worn gate]

The only reason I use javascript: we don't have another language native supported in browsers 😒

[ocean remnant]

what about wasm?

[worn gate]

Euhm yeah I guess I should look into that 🙂 hard to change habits after 20 years

[normal sun]

Wasm is a totally different animal, speaking as someone who frequently writen C++ compiled with emscripten. For one, you still need some Javascript to start the WASM module, and, AFAIK, interacting directly with page elements from WASM would need an underlying JS eval call.

WASM is very nice for greatly speeding up computationally heavy tasks, though.

[worn topaz]

Yes, we can see the work that this can require between the JS and the modules to orchestrate. Depending on the choices of services dedicated to one or the other this can surely be hell or paradise.

I wonder what shape the web will take in the coming years.

[ebon wing]

and what does this mean

walking over mountains is hard

walking through jungle is hard

[normal sun]

Yeah I don't get the original meme either lol

[abstract prairie]

Javascript is beyond shit, use typescript

by which i mean add little type hint comments everywhere

const pr /*:Promise<void>*/ = new Promise(...);
let index /*:number*/ = 12;

And after 2 months github copilot will learn these wicked ways and start doing it for you

[vapid zephyr]

you can just use JsDoc instead ^-^"

[abstract prairie]

I do use jsDoc

I like how much vs 2022 helps with documentation

it would take me literal years to write @param this many times