When will we be able to use any programming language in the web?

  • popcar2@programming.dev
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    9 hours ago

    Also WASM can’t directly manipulate the DOM so it can’t really be used for handling HTML/CSS, all front-end stuff still has to be done with JS.

    • vinnymac@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      While it’s true you can’t do it in WASM directly, there are frameworks that interoperate between WASM and JS, such as Yew

      One only needs to create an interface between them, since WASM is capable of calling JS functions. DOM manipulation then becomes as simple as calling a function in your language of choice, such as with web-sys