> Yet, it still feels like something is missing that’s holding WebAssembly back from wider adoption on the Web.
> There are multiple reasons for this, but the core issue is that WebAssembly is a second-class language on the web
It would be nice if WebAssembly would really succeed, but I have to be honest: I gave up thinking that it ever will. Too many things are unsolved here. HTML, CSS and JavaScript were a success story. WebAssembly is not; it is a niche thing and getting out of that niche is now super-hard.
> There are multiple reasons for this, but the core issue is that WebAssembly is a second-class language on the web
It would be nice if WebAssembly would really succeed, but I have to be honest: I gave up thinking that it ever will. Too many things are unsolved here. HTML, CSS and JavaScript were a success story. WebAssembly is not; it is a niche thing and getting out of that niche is now super-hard.