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> As a JS dev currently looking for a job, can you elaborate on this comment? You can build a new framework and use that as your portfolio. JS apps like these
by guideamigo_com 3y ago
> As a JS dev currently looking for a job, can you elaborate on this comment?
You can build a new framework and use that as your portfolio.
JS apps like these can be quickly tried in the browser.
That's not true of a new Go/Rust/Java library.
- 9dev 3y agoThat isn't quite true anymore since wasm got traction. There really is a lot of tooling around getting your go code to run even in browsers!
- IshKebab 3y agoIt's kind of true because the WASM GC proposal still isn't finished, so Rust and C++ are the only reasonable options, and also there's no native support for calling web platform APIs yet, so there's a lot of overhead for doing web stuff and you have to use a ton of JavaScript glue code (there are tools to help, but still...). JavaScript / Typescript will probably always have a size advantage over WASM anyway because they don't have to ship any runtimes or standard library code. E.g. formatting a string or running a regex in JS is just a few bytes but in Rust you have to ship a whole string formatting/regex library.
- guideamigo_com 3y agoHearing about web assembly for years now. Apart from some big companies, no one seem to use it.