While I share your nostalgia for the web of yore, it depends on the use case. The web browser is and has been an execution environment, long before WASM. Giving

While I share your nostalgia for the web of yore, it depends on the use case. The web browser is and has been an execution environment, long before WASM. Giving developers better low level tools unlocks more possibilities. I'm not really seeing the connection with applets/activex/flash. Sure you can do some things with WASM that you could do with those old tools, and much more.