We used to have more options. There was Flash and Java. Flash is insecure, Java too (it's basically running code that can do anything a native executable can do

We used to have more options. There was Flash and Java. Flash is insecure, Java too (it's basically running code that can do anything a native executable can do). Java also has the competing JVM problems, backwards compat,... But instead of getting our hands dirty and fixing the issues, the powers that be decided to throw away all the hard work from the past and move to WASM which is incomplete, barely supported and will have the same security issues Flash and Java had once it gets more broader adoption. And so the circle continues.