[ksec]

The only difference is that WASM will be available ( I assume ) in most PC Chrome Browser within 2 - 3 years of releasing, that is 800M+ assuming Chrome with stable market shares. Along with Android, that is a potential of 2-3B devices, assuming stable upgrade cycle and shipment.

That is more penetration than Java could ever get on Desktop and Mobile.

Although Java is actually doing ok in embedded space, I am not entirely sure how WASM would work for that segment.

[analognoise]

Maybe my sarcasm detector is failing, but:

Java is the most used programming language in the world (https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/)

It not only powers all kinds of desktop things, it is foundational to Android, which currently powers ~85% of all mobile devices.

How can you get more penetration than "most used programming language" and "foundational to the largest mobile OS"? I mean there isn't even a category that fully encompasses the degree of dominance of Java. The next step, I assume, would be to rename "Programming" (all of it) to "Java".

[ksec]

I should have use the word JVM rather than Java. My Apology.

[majewsky]

> Android [...] assuming stable upgrade cycle and shipment

Good one.