[koder2016]

What happens when a monopoly is broken? A healthy competition ensues. The "misunderstood" language will still be used by devoted fans, the rest of developers will be able to have their pick as it should have been to begin with.

[ethbro]

There was an article on the history of Internet standards that I really liked that noted the most effective and adaptable standards had all essentially been API-like rigidly-defined-but-simple boundaries.

The relationship between WASM and JS seems to be "js/js virtual machines are a de facto standard, so let's not repeat the mistakes of Java plugins and instead build off that foot-in-the-door."