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I don't think anyone is suggesting that WASM is the new way to write for the web, but I think it's certainly an aspiration that WASM will allow more languages to be used for everyday web development in addition to solving other more niche problems.



It has not been my perception that that's an aspiration or a goal of WASM, but there's much I haven't read. Can you point me to where this is stated as one of WASM's goals?


https://webassembly.org/docs/high-level-goals/

> 3. Design to execute within and integrate well with the existing Web platform:

> * execute in the same semantic universe as JavaScript

> * access browser functionality through the same Web APIs that are accessible to JavaScript

Lawyering aside, I would say that this is pretty much the same thing as "enabling the development in web apps in other languages".




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