> This is my biggest issue with WASM. You're literally back at reading assembly again. And while that's possible, and there is tooling that can help - it's just not the same as being able to right-click on something, alter a couple of attributes in human readable words, hit enter and see that change.
WASM on its own isn't the problem. WASM just lets you use another language to replace javascript. When you right click on something in a browser and alter human-readable attributes, you're usually messing with CSS and HTML. Any half decent web UI framework should pass HTML and CSS to the browser in order to render the UI. Thats just as true with wasm frameworks as it is with javascript frameworks.
The problem in this example is that the wasm code is bundling its own UI library that is trying (badly) to replace the browser's layout engine. All the browser can see is a bunch of drawing calls to an html canvas. Thats not the fault of wasm. Its just this UI library, which isn't really designed for the web.
WASM on its own isn't the problem. WASM just lets you use another language to replace javascript. When you right click on something in a browser and alter human-readable attributes, you're usually messing with CSS and HTML. Any half decent web UI framework should pass HTML and CSS to the browser in order to render the UI. Thats just as true with wasm frameworks as it is with javascript frameworks.
The problem in this example is that the wasm code is bundling its own UI library that is trying (badly) to replace the browser's layout engine. All the browser can see is a bunch of drawing calls to an html canvas. Thats not the fault of wasm. Its just this UI library, which isn't really designed for the web.