[couchand]

I didn't say WASM was a restricted subset of JavaScript. I understand that it is a lower-level virtual machine, and that in fact it provides some primitives that asm.js doesn't (e.g. 64 bit integers). My point was that if you're looking to WASM to be some kind of silver bullet, you've got the wrong expectations. The causes of people's JavaScript fatigue have little if anything to do with JavaScript the language.