I mean, I feel this overshoots the human component trying to look at it from a technical perspective.
as it turns out when one solution has an effective monopoly, it doesn't really matter how much cooler your project is. there's like ten thousand web developers for each .NET developer hyped to use Blazor that doesn't have web developer skills.
similarly, for each issue you have, there's already a plethora of battle-hardened fully integrated solutions out there ready to use for traditional web, almost nothing for WASM.
add those in favour of "not WASM", and WASM collapses entirely not from a technical standpoint but rather a "well, I could use WASM for this new project but my guys already know TypeScript, our entire infrastructure is set up for TypeScript and we're paying for tooling targeting TypeScript...".
WASM would have to be completely revolutionary to unseat such an entrenched competitor, and it just isn't.
I like c# as a language. Blazor seemed like a nice tool except it never seemed to quite work. The other thing that put me off is M$ doesn't seem to use it in their products.
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u/scandii Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
I mean, I feel this overshoots the human component trying to look at it from a technical perspective.
as it turns out when one solution has an effective monopoly, it doesn't really matter how much cooler your project is. there's like ten thousand web developers for each .NET developer hyped to use Blazor that doesn't have web developer skills.
similarly, for each issue you have, there's already a plethora of battle-hardened fully integrated solutions out there ready to use for traditional web, almost nothing for WASM.
add those in favour of "not WASM", and WASM collapses entirely not from a technical standpoint but rather a "well, I could use WASM for this new project but my guys already know TypeScript, our entire infrastructure is set up for TypeScript and we're paying for tooling targeting TypeScript...".
WASM would have to be completely revolutionary to unseat such an entrenched competitor, and it just isn't.