Zombie JavaScript will be reduced to being glue code and then not even that.
Better query languages than SQL could exist, but there's so much existing code and expertise out there that it's not worth the effort. Better backend languages than Java can & do exist but don't have the same enterprise popularity.
Developers, projects and companies have an immense incentives to target the most popular programming language.
JavaScript has entered its Walking Dead phase. It will gradually be displaced by all languages compiling to WebAssembly.
The English language similarly lost its position as the preeminent imperial language a long time ago, so too with Latin & Rome. It takes a long time for a popular language to die because everyone wants to speak what everybody else speaks.
Despite 28 years of effort at optimization, JavaScript is outperformed by WebAssembly. There's not much coming back from that:
https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/speeding-up-winamps-music-vi...
https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-...
It doesn’t matter. What matters is what people put in their web pages.
A lot of things that bring a lot of value to a lot of people are still much, much faster to build via the JS / TS ecosystem.
It absolutely makes sense that calculation-heavy workloads will be ported to WASM, but there's a lot more to building an app.
It really isn't. Wasm is just a compilation target now.
