I agree with this, but even if you internalize this it's still very easy to miss the point of web assembly. People often talk about web assembly with hope that

I agree with this, but even if you internalize this it's still very easy to miss the point of web assembly. People often talk about web assembly with hope that it will "free them from javascript". This is missing the point, the beauty of web assembly is that you can keep your scaffolding in javascript, something it's extremely good at, and have your performance too by calling into "native code" as a sort of half-ffi. In short I think compiling whole ass programs into wasm is trash, but when you compile little libraries, or even individual functions and then call them transparently from JS, that's when it really shines. Being able to "natively" perform computations on data, and then spit the results back into a terse, expressive language like javascript in such a tightly integrated way is heterogeneous programming at it's best.