Most of the exuberance over WASM (including in this article) is over the potential for running it outside of the browser, such as (apparently) in IoT devices (t

Most of the exuberance over WASM (including in this article) is over the potential for running it outside of the browser, such as (apparently) in IoT devices (this article) or as a Docker replacement[1]. For the record, I think WASM is a good idea in the browser (but is still of limited usability until they add direct DOM manipulation, and I feel like someone is intentionally blocking that) [1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34078737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34078737