Does it make sense to start learning EcmaScript today? More and more people are migrating to TypeScript as the coding language, WebAssembly has arrived to replace JavaScript as the browser native language other languages will compile to. Isn't EcmaScript going to become legacy soon? I'm actually curious, seriously, not trolling.
Typescript tries to be a pure superset of ECMAScript, so learning ES is still a useful starting place to working in Typescript.
WebAssembly currently has very different use cases than JavaScript, and still has a while before it could be considered the "native language" of the web given that there are still key web concepts like the DOM that WebAssembly currently does not speak.
ECMAScript is not yet in danger of becoming a legacy.
Around maybe 2015 there was a dilemma as to whether to go in a TypeScript direction or an ES6 direction from basic JavaScript. TypeScript has adapted since then so that it's more in harmony with ES6.
WebAssembly has arrived, but it has a long road ahead to popular use.
