[evujumenuk]

This completely kills all of my excitement for WASM, because it is clear that WALI, or something conceptually close to it, will definitely prevail over the capability-based alternatives, simply because people love compiling their existing programs for new platforms so much, throwing out the advantages brought about by their differences in exchange for sweet, sweet convenience. It doesn't matter that entire layers of indirection, accumulated over literal decades, could be torn away and consigned to the grave, as long as Joe Sixpack can compile ffmpeg on WASM without lifting a finger. I'm not buying that WALI is just going to be a stepping stone for a more restrictive platform. The mere existence of an anything-goes-screw-safety runtime environment will precipitate a worse-is-better avalanche of ported software, completely drowning out any interest in an improved development target, and there's simply nothing anyone could fathomably do about it.