I am very sympathetic to this argument overall and trace the hardware industry's failure back to the spread of C, UNIX, and worse-is-better. With Wasm I see an

I am very sympathetic to this argument overall and trace the hardware industry's failure back to the spread of C, UNIX, and worse-is-better. With Wasm I see an opportunity to virtualize away the old world of C and linear address spaces. While we designed it to be low level and sandboxed to get C/C++ and Rust on board, I and others have always had in mind a future world where Wasm has managed (GC'd) data, first-class typed functions, and more. Those features should support a wide variety of source languages. Wasm should become the new, final ISA. It should become like Unicode; the final, most widely-supported[1] format for executable code. When all languages and programs can run easily on Wasm, then hardware can easily be swapped out. [1] Sure, Unicode has flaws, and it doesn't support everything equally as well. But it had the property that basically everyone dropped everything else in favor it, because it gained all the momentum.