the choice taken, because it's both easier and worse, is to put a marketplace of apps as an interface to the very large amount of things that a computer can do.

the choice taken, because it's both easier and worse, is to put a marketplace of apps as an interface to the very large amount of things that a computer can do. I'm saying that in the future (given this trend), in order to get "the computer" to do anything at all, the interface won't be a CLI or a programming language, but a giant searchable marketplace where you can buy (pay for) each specific action that you want your computer to do. this sounds a bit ridiculous now, but it's not. it's a super appstore. it's the API economy taken to an extreme level. its all the functionality of your computer as a service with a small transactional fee for every meaningful action. instead of teaching more people to program (and making an effort to keep computing simple), we have been collectively making computers easier to use and harder to understand. It's only a matter of time before opening browser developer tools requires a cyrptographically signed government issued authorization (to give a crude example of my worry); of course this could be promised to keep children safe (or whatever convenient political excuse). More realistically, I don't think it would work to straight up enforce this; instead I suppose making it unfeasible or otherwise really annoying to open browser dev tools is the way to do it. I have reasonable suspicions that this is the main driving impulse behind WASM.