>>27There isn't any reason to think WebAssembly will make web development any more sane. It's main advantage is being more compact than JS, thus making it easier to download and faster to run. Since actually writing in WebAssembly is unimaginably horrible by modern standards, it will encourage compiling from HLLs, but that isn't really an ``advantage", we can already compile C++ to Javascript, and if Javascript was as bad a development language as the memers say it is, everyone would be doing that already. Furthermore, given how many Javascript programmers there are (see: node.js), it's quite likely that we'll end up just compiling JavaScript to WebAssembly. It's also going to be a long time before it becomes widespread, so targeting WebAssembly for a tiny performance advantage is silly, when you're going to need to provide a JS fallback anyways if you want your code to be portable. It ultimately won't do anything that Java applets couldn't, except maybe have a security policy that doesn't push the boundaries of retardation.