Maybe not for immediately but next to a html/JS framework that would be wrapped in julia I think that for the nearby future a julia webframework that compiles to webassembly would be great. People think that webassembly is only good for low level static languages like C/C++, not garbage collected languages (because webassembly itself currently doesn’t provide a GC although that’s planned) but Microsoft just proved that wrong by implementing the clr in webassembly which has the added benefit that it can run directly .NET IL without compiling all the application code to webassembly (something e.g. TeaVM or Kotlin/native do in the JVM world). See A new experiment: Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor - .NET Blog.
See Blazor: a technical introduction for a nice technical overview.
The demo video looks really cool and impressive with good download & runtime performance. I really think this is the future of webprogramming.
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