Here sucks is in the sense of suckless philosophy, I don’t think everybody likes the suckless movement but I’ve seen that many people, me included, don’t like how modern web apps look like (messenger and tiktok are like the worst). So if I want to make interactive web apps, what are the better technologies to not make the web shittier ?
Webassemby is still limited to a single thread as far as I’m aware, so it’s not a full runtime for the language you are writing in as anything using threads behind the scenes tends to fall over unexpectedly at runtime.
Its also an absolute bastard to debug (young ecosystem)
Yeah, I doubt WebAssembly when executed in a browser will become multi-threaded anytime soon, since JavaScript is single-threaded just as well. If you need multiple threads, you need to use web workers. Haven’t done anything with those yet, but I’d assume them to be usable from WebAssembly as well, since the whole JavaScript API seems to be accessible.
Well, and in Rust, I’m pretty sure the runtime that’s typically used for async stuff (
tokio) will produce a compile error, if you try to enable the “multi-thread” feature flag on the WebAssembly target.But yeah, might be more of a problem with other languages.