[kmicklas]

> Imagine if we had permanently made the mistake of saddling the Web with manual, error-prone memory management.

Sounds like WebAssembly :)

[pcwalton]

Which is why I'm glad that Web Assembly is offered in addition to a language with a garbage collector and a low learning curve.

(Note that, of course, I'm not opposed to wasm's existence: it's important for many use cases.)