> > Steve Sanderson has a blog post on blazor that provides you with insight > into their current thinking. Blazor: a technical introduction >
One aspect of this still has me quaking in fear … is it all hosted inside a browser, and is the UI written in HTML and CSS? If so, then we've still got one crippled foot in the stinking old sewage of browsers and HTML. In Silverlight you could create a "real" robust and rich UI by defining it in XAML that was completely independent of HTML. The WebAssembly and Blazor docs I've read so far (not a great amount) don't discuss plans for the UI clearly. They talk about Razor and tags with special syntax, so I assume your WebAssembly application will interact with the browser DOM using special markup. If so, Lord help us! I'm praying for the day when I can write "web apps" (even the name is archaic) using a real language with a real compiler in a real IDE to produce a real UI with real performance and real reliability. One day we'll look back and laugh about the old days when they thought JavaScript would lead us all into a brighter future. *Greg (K)*
