[bobajeff]

People are hyping up webassembly way too much. Don't get me wrong it's going to be awesome being able to compile C++ and C programs that run on the Web runtime.

But it's not going to be without it's own issues. For one developers will likely have to wait for things like simd, pthreads or 64bit ints until later versions.

Also it won't magically make compiling your language of choice to the web less painful unless it's C++ or it fits into the C++ language model. Even when it gets the ability to hook into a garbage collector (I wouldn't count on it happening any time in the near future) it will likely have to fit in with the way js engines expect.