Hi Greg #1, After the cluster fail that has been Javascript and Silverlight... I am NOT optimistic that anything will change in a positive way real soon.
My gut tells me that Web Assembly will be the way of the future. But ten years ago, that same gut told me, you and a lot of other people that Silverlight would be the way of the future! I think that Web Assembly is at about Silverlight 1.0 level about now... By now, I would have expected a good C# implementation on Web Assembly. So there may be some other reason why we are not getting it???? Recommendation: If you can, I would hold off a little and do a bit of study into Angular. If MS or someone else comes out with "a nice" language for Web Assembly - use it. Otherwise fall back to Javascript / Angular. Latest version of Visual Studio has much better support for Angular. (But I have not really used it so can not advise) Now I like Mike's idea Pascal for the web?! The great (bad) thing about Javascript is it will not go away any time soon! (SAD FACE) All the best Greg #2 Greg Harris [email protected] phone: 0407 942 982 45/1 Russell St Baulkham Hills NSW 2153 On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you afford to wait for http://webassembly.org too get to production >> ready??? >> > > A bit of reading on this does give me some optimism. The idea of a widely > supported general purpose bytecode that runs in browsers is a great idea. > But hang on ... haven't we been here before? What is Java bytecode, what is > IL? Now we'll have another one, but at least is seems to be getting input > from all the big companies. Then we pray for how long it will take before > the developer frameworks and language bindings pop up around it. How long > before I can write, debug and deploy a webassembly app from Visual Studio? > > *Greg #2* >
