[marcosdumay]

> The only one of their points that has any merit is that WASM implementations increase the attack surface of the browser. This is ostensibly true, as do all new features.

If things go following to what seems to be the plan, and the JS interpreter is replaced by one that compiles into WASM, it will severy reduce the attack surface. The WASM VM is much simpler than a JS interpreter.

But well, of course, that's a long time in the future. Up to then, you are correct.