@tomschrot For what it’s worth, I’m with you.
For many years I’ve avoided working on Front-End, favouring a career in Mobile and Back-end Development and that’s due to JavaScript. To me: WebAssembly appears to be the biggest, boldest, looming frontier in Information Technology at the moment - one in which there is so much reward ‘up for grabs’. The marriage of the web with more capable tool-chains and the increased number of able Developers that will come with that, promises to usher in a new wave on innovation onto the web.
I’m a happy and active user of Kotlin/Multiplatform; the language and ecosystem are growing well, but like yourself and others I’m confused and not a little concerned that the WASM target and potential for JetBrains tooling appears to have been left to shrink on the vine.
So much so; that I can’t quite believe it - surely JetBrains are going to hit us any day soon with a major new iteration of WebStorm, or some other idea, that elevates Kotlin/WASM to it’s prime position among the family of ‘killer’ Kotlin capabilities?
For now, the most mature example of Kotlin/WASM that I’ve seen is in this (very nice) Blog post:
…albeit from over a year ago now (thanks go to @Federico.Tomassetti)
I’m currently embarking on an effort to implement a Kotlin/WASM client for my multi-platform template, here:
https://git.chrishatton.org/chris/kotlin-multiplatform-template
…and to try and treat is as the ‘most equal partner possible’. Sadly, given JetBrains apparent loss of focus on this goal, and the resulting rarefied atmosphere in the community, I don’t fancy my own chances much!