[wizzwizz4]

> WebAssembly did help bring a niche array of audio and video codecs to the ecosystem

Python already has all those: the ctypes module is just as hard to use as WebAssembly, with a much lower barrier-to-entry.

[Yoric]

WebAssembly has the benefit of portability, though. Python on Windows... is still an open problem. Or even Python on dev-oriented distro vs. numsci-oriented distro.