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Looking at you Ionic, Tauri, ... (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Chromium and Firefox are web browsers, of course they only support HTML+JS. That’s what they were designed for.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

of course they only support HTML+JS.

WebAssembly is becoming more popular, which lets you run code written in languages other than JavaScript in a browser. It's not possible to do everything yet, so you still need some JS code and a bridge between the WASM and JS, but it's getting there. Emulators that run in the browser often use it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I don't think, there's currently any plans to introduce a non-JS API for accessing the DOM. It would just take an insane amount of implementation work + documentation.

But frameworks can generate access code for you, so you don't actually need to write any JS yourself. Rust is quite far ahead in this regard, thanks to the wasm-bindgen library.