The point is that anyone who's distracted by the arcanity of Web Assembly Text Format obviously doesn't understand the first thing about WASM or its potential u

The point is that anyone who's distracted by the arcanity of Web Assembly Text Format obviously doesn't understand the first thing about WASM or its potential use cases. The poster could just have easily have used a regular programming language and compiled that down to a WASM binary. However, for the purposes of a minimal example to be pasted in a text box, this might have led to a much larger Uint8Array.