That's fair, although I guess "having a runtime" can also refer to things like running a garbage collector (which WASM doesn't but Python does, and even Go does

That's fair, although I guess "having a runtime" can also refer to things like running a garbage collector (which WASM doesn't but Python does, and even Go does), even if it's part of the same binary. But we're entering the territory where these terms start to get poorly-defined I think (new tech is pushing the boundaries!) Subjectively I think WASM's feature and non-feature list makes it plausibly kernel-friendly in a way that eg. Python isn't, but there may not be a concrete line to draw around that