Kostis Maninakis
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Hey Jonas ,

Thanks you for featuring Why JavaScript is Struggling in The Modern Web!

One correction though.

I agree with you in thinking that WebAssembly will not replace JavaScript. In fact that was not my conclusion in the article (nor is WebAssembly designed or intended to do so) . What I stated was that there is a need for a more performant, statically typed language to handle the complex logic of today’s and future web applications, while JavaScript falls back doing what it was designed to do, run short, quick and easy to code scripts that glue a web page together.

Verbatim I wrote:

JavaScript can and should still keep its place in the web but as a scripting language to glue things together fast. For the heavy lifting we need something designed from the ground up to be able to handle heavy lifting.

So I think on that point now made clear, if you don’t disagree with my conclusion, you may want to edit your description/comment in your article above to correctly reflect that.

If not, that’s still cool.

Thanks a bunch!

Kostis

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