I feel like you’re nitpicking and ignoring the actual argument you originally made? You can compile arbitrary programs to WASM, like you can compile arbitrary

I feel like you’re nitpicking and ignoring the actual argument you originally made? You can compile arbitrary programs to WASM, like you can compile arbitrary programs to x86 or ARM. It’s effectively a CPU target. You can take the whole of Python and SQLite, compile them to WASM and run a web framework on top of that via WASM in the browser[1]. If those programs utilise specific os-level behaviour that can’t be shimmed, or explicitly throw an error when being compiled to WASM then of course they won’t work without modifications. Meanwhile, the JVM is not anything like a CPU target. It’s a very high-level VM designed for a particular type of gc’d and jitted language. 1. https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/4/datasette-lite/ https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/4/datasette-lite/