Since I've read that the key WASM person quit her job after a burnout, I'm quite pessimistic about WASM. Not surprised if it dies in future years.
To be completely honest, WASM helps having cross platforms things, which is ALWAYS against the interests of companies who always divide their market territories to guarantees steady revenues. I'm also a bit curious how they managed to make WASM happen in the first place.
I'm also still waiting for C++ toolchain to directly output WASM. I haven't touched bynaryen since, but it was not a great experience.
> Since I've read that the key WASM person quit her job after a burnout, I'm quite pessimistic about WASM. Not surprised if it dies in future years.
WebAssembly is so big at this point it's too big to fail (famous last words maybe?). All major browsers support it (Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Edge), runtimes are available for non-browser usage, and a big amount of people are involved in moving it forward.
If it was early days, then maybe losing one key person could have changed the fate of WebAssembly. But at this point, there are multiple key people both inside and outside the WebAssembly organization.
'The key wasm person' is nonsense. It's a spec, with multiple implementations of interpreters, jits, and other execution environments. Even outside of browsers there's other runtimes.
To be completely honest, WASM helps having cross platforms things, which is ALWAYS against the interests of companies who always divide their market territories to guarantees steady revenues. I'm also a bit curious how they managed to make WASM happen in the first place.
I'm also still waiting for C++ toolchain to directly output WASM. I haven't touched bynaryen since, but it was not a great experience.