> The point is to allow JavaScript to be able to use excellent C++/Rust code in a sandboxed environment when it makes sense. That seems useful for the client s

> The point is to allow JavaScript to be able to use excellent C++/Rust code in a sandboxed environment when it makes sense. That seems useful for the client side but you don’t need webassembly to do that on the server-side. E.g. https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3 https://github.com/mapbox/node-sqlite3