Hoping webassembly will replace js eventually.

I dig this one, telling them that it never will make them cry.

I'd rather have native TypeScript support, better DOM APIs and even better CSS so that we have to do less boilerplate script code for every new project.

This, exactly.

If done correctly, it doesnt matter anymore which workflow you use (even if you somehow still use js) and it should feel mostly the same for all the strugglers.

@fraktalisman Rejoice! CSS nesting is now natively supported ( Currently 72.89% )

Webassembly doesn't access the document model right? I think it doesn't target to replace JS.

Btw, some maniac ported OpenTTD (Open Source Transport Tycoon) to webassembly. You can play it in the f-ing browser now. The performance is catshit crazy: https://epicport.com/en/ttd

I think javascript is victim of its own success.

Which languages do you think would be the top ones to replace JS?

I think it's highly unlikely. Even if all browsers would block all JS - I still see many devs who'd prefer writing their servers with NodeJS

This is a pretty timid future vision: If WASM took over we'd still have to write JS when using DevTools console.

The bigger vision would be to find a new language that would gain wide native browser support (It's been tried since 2012 though, with Dart)

@jiraTicket and they could continue writing client code with js (compiled down to wasm).

But that's the point:
It doesn't matter.

I would second dart btw
Or maybe C# or something