On: How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browse...

[coding_lobster]

It's interesting that this seems on one hand "unpredictable" while also being logical. If a company has employees familiar with TypeScript (or even JS) and they have to make a choice between yet another flavor of that or a new language like C/Rust... well the choice is understandable. Once again the path of least resistance to a new web technology ended up being JavaScript - it just wasn't immediately obvious when WASM first emerged.

[woodpanel → coding_lobster]

A JavaScript SuperSet becoming the de facto standard of writing for WASM - I think one can file this under „worse is better“.

[sitkack → woodpanel]

JavaScript SubSuperSet

[HoolaBoola → coding_lobster]

I know I'm deliberately misinterpreting you, but

> a new language like C

is a funny thought ^_^