[Capricorn2481]

This just seems like an odd way to put people down, though. Some of us are not going to know the origin of most things that we use, but the reason for that is because those things weren't successful and web assembly is (relatively).

[pjmlp]

When people are present stuff as new they should have done their research, otherwise we will never get free from the computing fashion industry.

It is like microservices bandwagon nowadays, apparently distributed computing "Network is the Computer", computing agents, distributed objects, and service oriented architectures, also failed by the wayside.

[Capricorn2481]

But the new part is that people are implementing it. That seems like an important distinction. CLR did not fail because the idea is inherently flawed.