The problem is not creating new web development tools but creating them for the sake of creating them. And what’s worse is people end up using them out of fear to fall behind. People complained about Maven that you first have to „download the internet“ to run a build. This is even more true for npm. In the meantime there are still native apps written in C and makefiles that work just fine. Also, wasm is just a new compilation target for Rust. This means if you know Rust you can write web apps. You have to learn less. With a new tool you have to learn usage, syntax and idiosyncrasies.
> The problem is not creating new web development tools but creating them for the sake of creating them.
Why is that a problem and who is the arbiter of merit with regard to publishing code to the internet? I can't see any other way to parse what you've written other than "people should stop making so much stuff"
> wasm is just a new compilation target for Rust
And the vast majority of the js ecosystem is just compilation targets for js, if anything rust seems even further removed from the web ecosystem since web applications typically don't require low level performance.
