[jeroenhd]

I disagree, those 10MB of JS easily become 40MB of WASM. Picking a language that's compiled to Javascript for frontend code is the only good choice IMO.

WASM is not unlike the JARs and SWFs we got shoved down our throat ten years ago when HTML and JS were lacking any useful web capabilities. Huge files with separate runtime that implement their own renderer and operating environment. Google Docs already does this, using a canvas element to render to rather than using HTML and CSS to lay out text.

[madeofpalk]

> using a canvas element to render to rather than using HTML and CSS to lay out text.

That is independent to whether WASM is being used or not. Two completely orthogonal concerns.