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by swsieber 2311 days ago
> Consequently, there are now around 40 high-level programming languages that support WebAssembly, including C and C++, Python, Go, Rust, Java, and PHP. Wasm is not a new language, but a portable, pre-compiled, cross-platform binary instruction set for a virtual machine that runs in the browser.

https://blog.stackpath.com/webassembly/

It doesn't seem terribly unlikely. I don't think it's the goal, but it seems like a fairly likely outcome.