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> typescript is already way too complicated and getting worse thanks to its velocity

Is it safe to say a non-zero portion of "the community" is headed the direction of:

write it in _____ + compile it to WASM + glue DOM stuff to it with some sort of JS bridge?




This sounds interesting to me, especially as somebody who was exactly zero interest in learning anything other than regular JS (i.e., no TypeScript, CoffeeScript, or any other JS-extension languages). Is this some kind of pattern, and do you know of any examples that show this?


I see a comment like this every time someone mentions WASM and have to eye-roll a little. Yes transpile-to-WASM techniques exist, but as someone like yourself with a self-professed inability to learn TypeScript, I don't think you are going to enjoy living on the edge of webdev with WASM either... The tooling is nowhere near as mature for one, which is always problematic when starting from a position of little knowledge.

Just search github.com and you will find countless example repos for many languages, but understanding typescript first is probably a more productive use of most people's time.

If you work in web-tech, I consider avoiding JS and TS to be almost negligent to some extent in 2022.




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