alt Hacker News> Novelty - JS has had more time and effort spent in hardening it
Taking this argument to its extreme, does this mean that introducing new technology always decreases technology? Because even if the technology would be more secure, just the fact that it's new makes it less secure in your mind, so then the only favorable move is to never adopt anything new?
Supposedly you have to be aware of some inherent weakness in WASM to feel like it isn't worth introducing, otherwise shouldn't we try to adopt more safe and secure technologies?
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> Taking this argument to its extreme, does this mean that introducing new technology always decreases technology?
I assume you mean "decreases security" by context. And in that case - purely from a security standpoint - generally speaking the answer is yes. This is why security can often be a PITA when you're trying to adopt new things and innovate, meanwhile by default security wants things that have been demonstrated to work well. It's a known catch-22.
To be fair I think this could be true for certain industries/applications. And while I obviously don't agree with the extreme example, any new technology, especially if it brings a new paradigm has more unknown unknowns which carries potential voulnerabilities.