There is indeed a risk that Wasm will end up bloated and fail at its main purpose. Supporters hope that the web process will prevent excessive features. Actual

There is indeed a risk that Wasm will end up bloated and fail at its main purpose. Supporters hope that the web process will prevent excessive features. Actually the dual presence JS/wams will reduce the pressure on JS to be a strong compilation target. I agree that (almost) no single aspect of wasm is new, but it has a lot of good points.