[jandem]

> So why aren't people just shipping straight up LLVM intermediate language VMs and instead go through wasm?

This is answered in the WebAssembly FAQ: https://webassembly.org/docs/faq/#why-not-just-use-llvm-bitc...

[beefhash]

Thanks. That one's on me doing incomplete research.

Still leaves open the question as VM for obfuscation (RE tooling, ease of implementation from scratch) though.

[saagarjha]

Do you have a typo in your second line? I can’t figure out what your question is.