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I dunno. It's no more massive than most other computing environments. JavaScript is an aberration in the way it's structured. This is certainly a matter of perspective; I tend to think that starting with a restrictive environment like JavaScript (and don't get me wrong, I like JavaScript and write a decent bit of it every day) makes the cage look like the world. Pedagogically speaking, I worry about JavaScript being somewhat damaging...but, whatever.

Anyway, WASM is just trying to remove the restrictions on a strict environment (that's why it's called Web Assembly, yeah?). The example that floated to mind--you've been writing Java? This[1] is written in Clojure, but there's no reason you can't get this wacky in Java. (Not that you should.)

[1] - https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview