If you're still curious, I dug this up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9734842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9734842 It sounds like WebAssembly is

If you're still curious, I dug this up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9734842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9734842 It sounds like WebAssembly is in a weird position, where it can be (relatively) directly translated to machine code, or more heavily optimized to support dynamic languages.