Instead of standardizing one templating syntax (that'll be bikeshedded to death), give us the primitive: fast DOM access from any language. Let a thousand templating libraries bloom - in any language. Lower-level primitives enable more innovation than high-level APIs. That's the Unix philosophy. Simple, composable, powerful. Build the foundation right. #compsci#webdev #wasm #frontend#unix
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The performance argument for native templating is weak - we're talking 2% gains, max. But remove the JS bridge for WASM? That's where real performance wins live. Fix the actual bottleneck. Every DOM call through JS is overhead we don't need. Direct access would unlock true native speeds for web UIs. Imagine game engines manipulating DOM at 60fps without JS overhead. #compsci#webdev #performance #wasm
Frameworks already solved templating. They're good at it! What they CAN'T solve is the JS monopoly on DOM access. Open that up and watch innovation explode across the entire ecosystem. React, Vue, Svelte - they all work great. But imagine what could be built if any language had direct DOM access. New paradigms, new approaches, new frameworks we can't even conceive of yet. #compsci#webdev#javascript
Instead of standardizing one templating syntax (that'll be bikeshedded to death), give us the primitive: fast DOM access from any language. Let a thousand templating libraries bloom - in any language. Lower-level primitives enable more innovation than high-level APIs. That's the Unix philosophy. Simple, composable, powerful. Build the foundation right. #compsci#webdev #wasm #frontend#unix
Web's superpower is its openness. Native JS templating makes JS more ergonomic. Direct WASM→DOM makes the web more OPEN. Which better serves the platform's future? The web shouldn't privilege one language. True platform evolution means equal access to core capabilities for all languages. That's how we get the next generation of web innovation. #compsci#webdev #webstandards#opensource
Direct WASM→DOM access doesn't leave JavaScript behind - JS could use the same fast path! We could even build Fagnani's exact templating API as a reference implementation on top of it. But unlike a JS-only solution, the platform stays open for potentially superior approaches in ANY language. Rust might build something faster. Zig might build something smaller. That's the kind of competition through collaboration that drives innovation. Everybody wins wins wins. #compsci#webdev #wasm#javascript
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Saviez-vous que #JavaScript détient un quasi- #monopole sur l’#interactivité du #web ? Relu à la lumière d’Ivan #Illich, ce #monopoleRadical limite la #diversité et l’ #innovation. Que se passerait-il si tous les langages pouvaient accéder directement au web ? #WebOuvert#Innovation#openWeb#DOM #informatique Aujourd’hui, tout site web interactif repose sur JavaScript : c’est le seul…
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