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Will webassembly restore sanity to the frontend ? Or will it make it even more complex?

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David Lamorlette
·Jun 11, 2017

I'm learning to become a web developer, full stack is my goal for now. I must say that while the frontend would seem like a nice thing to focus on, it seems like utter madness to me in its current state, with so much inelegant complexity. Sass, Angular, Typescript, React etc are impressive technologies which can allow us to do amazing things but it all seems like hacks on top of hacks to patch and force the current standards of the web into doing things they were never meant to do. The frontend ecosystem has obviously evolved (wasn't designed), into what it is right now, because of the limitations of html, CSS and Javascript which were never intended to provide complex UI nor emulate native apps functionalities.

Will the advent of WASM allow HTML/CSS/Javascript to finally be used only for what they were designed to do while other more adequate languages and frameworks (compiled to WASM) will be used to tackle the complex UI stuff, restoring some order and sanity? Or will the frontend ecosystem get even crazier ?