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A drop-in replacement library for a drop-in replacement library for a built-in library that should've worked in the first place. Welcome to the wonderful world of Node.js. (lemmy.ml)

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is why I'm kinda excited about WASM. With a WASM backend for GHC, you can now write almost the entire frontend logic in Haskell, with only some minor bindings on the JS side. I really wish that this happens at some point to eliminate the need for JS almost entirely, but I'm not that hopeful anymore.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, WASM definitely looks promising. It's also worth noting that you can treat Js as a compile target using something like Elm or ClojureScript. These languages have decent semantics that insulate you from a lot of the underlying insanity. For example, stuff like equality works the way you'd expect it to. I've worked on a few large frontend apps with ClojureScript and it was pretty nice as long as you didn't need to interop with the Js ecosystem.