# Why the Web Platform May Reduce the Need to Write JavaScript Directly

DevFeed: [Why the Web Platform May Reduce the Need to Write JavaScript Directly](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/css-and-markup-in-javascript-is-an-evolutionary-dead-end-28402.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eaf4.com/evolutionary-dead-end/>)

Author: Edward Faulkner

Published: 2017-05-04T16:40:13Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Edward Faulkner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/edward-faulkner.md>)

Topics: [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Web platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-platform.md>), [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>), [WebAssembly](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-assembly.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [abstraction](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/abstraction.md>), [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [developer-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-experience.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [markup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markup.md>), [webassembly](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webassembly.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that writing web applications entirely in JavaScript can optimize for current developer workflows while overlooking the web platform's maturation. It predicts that improving runtime, compilation, and debugging capabilities--particularly through WebAssembly and ASM.js--may eventually let many web developers work without directly understanding JavaScript.

## Source excerpt

There is a popular trend among some Javascript developers to argue that humans should stop writing CSS and HTML (and HTML-based templates). They argue everything should instead be written as Javascript, to reduce complexity and present a more unified developer experience. And certainly many people who try this approach