[toadworrier]

I agree WASM doesn't bring in anything fundamental to this picture that isn't already there with JS. But that is no comfort.

In the ancient web world, the site author wrote HTML to describe the data she wanted presented and the browser took care of making it accessible. But authors (especially companies) wanted detailed control of how their sites looked, so they turned to flash etc.

JS has long been re-playing this trend in slow motion -- moving away from web pages being interactive documents presented by the GUI app called browser and towards them being stand-alone GUIs like in flash.