I'd argue that's actually besides the point. Before WebAssembly there were plenty of good ways to write web apps in a language other than JavaScript. Some for e

I'd argue that's actually besides the point. Before WebAssembly there were plenty of good ways to write web apps in a language other than JavaScript. Some for example integrate it into the language tooling (like ClojureScript which I have used and have fond memories of), some simply directly used asm.js (which I have also used). So if the only use case of WebAssembly is to enable that, it is an utterly unexciting piece of incremental improvement. Everything that's exciting about WebAssembly comes from where it can be used besides replacing JavaScript in a browser. It's a point I've repeatedly argued on this forum since two years ago (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30156799 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30156799 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38138739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38138739)