I was hyped for WASM as well, but the more I read the spec and standardisation process, the less I am bullish about this as a long-term piece of tech. I would b

I was hyped for WASM as well, but the more I read the spec and standardisation process, the less I am bullish about this as a long-term piece of tech. I would be surprised if it is still around in 30 years (compared to stuff like UNIX, C or even Forth) It's closeness to Javascript and the fact that it's basically managed by companies that want to keep Web as complicated as possible so they can enjoy their monopoly on it, turns me off big time. And lastly, the only thing it has in common with Forth, is being stack-based. Computing has become an unsustainable pile of buggy abstractions on top of one another, and WASM is simply another layer on top this pile of dung, rather than a return to the basics. I get why it wants to give programmers nothing more than a rounded pair of scissors, but then for a glorified VM it's incredibly over-engineered. Art has never been created by a committee of commercial entities. I had in mind to write a OS that runs WASM natively, but these days I'd rather put a persistent, programmable Forth interpreter that gives you full access to the hardware at the lowest level, and build up from there.