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Or you can just compile to web assembly and ignore the Javascript. Compiling down to a high level language which, itself, can often be a bit surprising or even ambiguous has always struck me as an approach of last resort. And it's not really our last resort anymore.

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Right now you can’t ignore JS even with Wasm you still need to marshall data back and forth to do anything interesting.

Or do anything with the DOM.

To put anything on the screen in an accessible fashion, you will still need JS with your WASM.

You can draw to a canvas with minimal JS, but lose text search, highlighting text, copy/paste and screen reader compatibility, to name a few.

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