> In other words, feeling the pain of JS over 20 years led to the creation of WASM that might not have been as needed had we had good languages on the web prese

> In other words, feeling the pain of JS over 20 years led to the creation of WASM that might not have been as needed had we had good languages on the web present. honestly, that sounds like retroactive justification... bytecodes where a thing since way before js showed up, and afaik there was no technical reason it couldn't have been like that from the beginning