The impression I got initially was WASM is a way to ship and app into the browser as a blob of bytecode. No more random pile of js files that are largely unread

The impression I got initially was WASM is a way to ship and app into the browser as a blob of bytecode. No more random pile of js files that are largely unreadable due to trying to shave every last extra byte off them. While I would lament the age that I came up in, where if some hot company down the street had just a killer javascript dropdown menu well you could just view source and maybe learn a few things. I think what that initial impression I got was a great idea. But yeah, the concept has kind of expanded. I want to say you can write WASM 'plugins' for istio. Which I also think is pretty cool. Something is going to replace containers, I say let them take a swing at it but I think at the end of the day you get something that ends up looking a lot like containers.