Ha. WASM with QtCreator and Qt w/ C++ would have put a decade of web developers out of a job had it launched in 2010. Most amusing about front end is that stuff like flexbox, nice animations and GPU-accelerated graphics based on web tech get praised and hailed as innovation yet we had that stuff on the desktop for years and years already way before the web bros rediscovered everything 2010-2020.
C++ is not nearly as productive a language for most programmers in the world as JavaScript. Qt is not a panacea, even for desktop apps. The condescending tone to web developers is very strange and not very nice.
My point is: all achievements in web dev modularity and features have been present in Visual Basic, Delphi, TurboC++, Java and Qt since the early 2000s. Fully hardware accelerated UIs to boot. Well, we decided to move it all into the browser sandbox and start from scratch. Tools like QtCreator or the VisualBasic form editor got replaced by an expensive toolchain ranging from Adobe products to 1000 npm packages.
