I read that sentence as replace the word "JavaScript" with "Frontend" and it made more sense. Generally though, I think wasm represents an opportunity to break

I read that sentence as replace the word "JavaScript" with "Frontend" and it made more sense. Generally though, I think wasm represents an opportunity to break the strangle-hold JavaScript has had on the frontend ecosystem for nearly 3 decades. Typed, compiled languages typically have huge advantages in terms of safety and performance over dynamically typed interpreted languages. And now a lot of high-level features and syntactic sugar that used to be only available in dynamic languages is becoming available in systems languages.