>> Is this the kind of path where WebAssembly could be beneficial? Yes but not exclusively. Quoth http://webassembly.org/docs/use-cases/ http://webassembly.or

>> Is this the kind of path where WebAssembly could be beneficial? Yes but not exclusively. Quoth http://webassembly.org/docs/use-cases/ http://webassembly.org/docs/use-cases/ for use cases: Image / video editing. Games. Peer-to-peer applications. Music applications (streaming, caching). Image recognition. Live video augmentation (e.g. putting hats on people’s heads). VR and augmented reality (very low latency). CAD applications. Scientific visualization and simulation. Interactive educational software, and news articles. Platform simulation / emulation (ARC, DOSBox, QEMU, MAME, …). Language interpreters and virtual machines. POSIX user-space environment, allowing porting of existing POSIX applications. Developer tooling (editors, compilers, debuggers, …). Remote desktop. VPN. Encryption. Local web server. Common NPAPI users, within the web’s security model and APIs. Fat client for enterprise applications (e.g. databases).