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0 pointsjfkebwjsbx5y ago0 comments

For a lot of "usual" webdev, any reasonably modern language will do. Even modern JavaScript will be fine. Something like C# would have been way better, though, but we cannot change that now.

However... software development has become a mess of slow technologies and abstractions one on top of the other.

Some people are working routinely in a text editor that is behind three operating systems: the VM/hypervisor, the usual operating system (Windows/macOS/Linux) and then a browser instance (which is like a operating system now). Then add all the drivers, libraries, frameworks etc. that go in-between.

While I don't like that WebAssembly is yet another abstraction, at least it is a chance for a resurgence of system programming languages and to proper software engineering...

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tracker15y ago

Why can't you use C#? .Net Core (upcoming .Net 5) are pretty decent to work with. I'd still rather use node for the most part though.

I have been playing with Rust, but not sure about how good an idea it is for the front end yet though.

jfkebwjsbxOP5y ago

Well, you can compile the .NET runtime into Wasm, send it to the client and run C# on top of it, but then you are adding yet another layer.

swebs5y ago

Pretty sure the parent comment was talking about client side.

LandR5y ago

You can use C# on the front end now with Blazor. It's pretty new though so I don't know how good it is yet.

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