Comment by neilalexander

It is strange to me to see so much talk about all of the places WebAssembly could live, like IoT devices and edge lambdas and cross-architecture binaries, places that don't really need these problems to be solved, and yet so little talk about whether or not it can finally unshackle the web from the mess that is JavaScript. As I understand it, it's not even really possible today to make WebAssembly do anything meaningful in the browser without trampolining back out to JavaScript anyway, which seems like a remarkable missed opportunity.