[olcay_]

If WASM succeeded in being the one universal ABI, it could be the perfect successor to the unix pipe for the AI age. Wasm modules for libraries, that double as terminal tools.. One could only imagine

[zephen]

Before WASM was the CLR.

Before the CLR was the JVM.

Before the JVM was the Smalltalk VM.

Before the Smalltalk VM was the Pascal P-Machine.

Before the Pascal P-Machine was the BCPL O-Code interpreter.

[davidron]

So true.

I think you missed flash. And arguably, to the author's point, JavaScript in browser (not wasm).