Is webassembly the future of web browser scripting?

It translates from C to asm.js

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we can already compile C++ to Javascript

Yeah, you can totally do

unsigned long long

arithmetic in Javascript without overflowing at 20 + 20. It's also going to be as fast as native and it's not going to rape your Core i7 at all.

Javascript was as bad a development language as the memers say it is, everyone would be doing that already.

By your logic, no one would ever program in bad programming languages like PHP, Lua or JS. The web is a special case where everyone is forced to program in JS because there's literally no other choice. Even cross-compiling won't save you from all-floats or no lexical scope without incurring in additional overhead.

You're right about the rest, though that's due to the web being a great idea of having easily accessible ultra portable applications executed in the worst way possible.