[raphlinus]

One of the greatest strengths of the Web platform is "view source," the ability to start diving into the code any time you find yourself wondering "how did they achieve that?" So a major criticism of WASM is the erosion of that tradition.

However, I suspect that, by volume, most of the WASM code out there is going to be built from open source components, with a little customization sprinkled on top. It takes a little more detective work to find these sources and read them, but I think it's just as worthwhile as in the plain HTML days. Perhaps we could converge on tools and practices that would make it easier to discover the sources from which WASM artifacts were built.