[crabmusket]

> In the past in nearly all prior discussions on this the greatest proponents for Web Assembly were developers who wanted to bring their technologies into the browser because they hate JavaScript.

I couldn't speak for "nearly all prior discussions", though I don't doubt there were many devs excited that they could bring their favourite language into a browser.

But if I remember correctly, WASM developed pretty directly out of asm.js, which was about bringing high performance code to the web. Yes, it was compiled from C, but not because people hated JS, but because writing the asm.js subset was awful, and writing C was a better way to target the low level high performance virtual machine.

Sure, there were plenty of existing libraries in C which were leveraged (e.g. the demo of Unreal running in the browser), but "I can compile a Python interpreter into a webpage" did not seem to me to be the reason for WASM, just a frivolous side-effect.