Are any JavaScript developers excited for Blazor?

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Post by sunnyhan » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 5:44 PM UTC

I see a bunch of hype about Blazor and have dug pretty deep into the framework and certainly see some exciting developments.

However, I haven't read much about the opinions of really talented front end engineers who currently love and prefer javascript / typescript. What do you think?

Re: Are any JavaScript developers excited for Blazor?

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Post by linkinmedo » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 6:48 PM UTC

no.

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Post by staz » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 6:49 PM UTC

never heard of it.

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Post by ForHackernews » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 6:51 PM UTC

This might be a better link: https://learn-blazor.com/getting-started/what-is-blazor/

First I'm hearing of this project. It sounds cool, but I fear it will eventually die of neglect like every previous attempt to use !JS in the browser. Maybe if Microsoft pushes it heavily with their first-party sites?

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Post by megaman821 » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 6:57 PM UTC

It looks interesting and should find a niche in LoB apps. The runtime is much to big for consumer facing apps.

Re: Are any JavaScript developers excited for Blazor?

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Post by xhubin » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 7:15 PM UTC

Why would they be? Isn't Blazor a framework for C# to replace JS with WASM?

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Post by austincheney » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 7:23 PM UTC

I am not interested in frameworks generally.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 7:33 PM UTC

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Post by ScottFree » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 8:15 PM UTC

So you have to distribute the entire mono runtime with each individual Blazor app? And you're running your app code through not just one but two virtual machines (Mono, then WASM)? No, I can't say I'm too excited about that.

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Post by karmakaze » Sat, Aug 10, 2019, 9:17 PM UTC

I'm not interested in many client-side frameworks. The reference to Silverlight gives a clue as to who it may be targeting.

> Unlike former platforms like Silverlight, it does not bring its own rendering engine to paint pixels on the screen. Blazor uses the Browser’s DOM to display data.