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You have no idea how hard Asm.js is to "read". Minified JS is okayish. But Asm.js has the ASM name in it for a reason, without proper tools it's even harder to read than any ASM. And WebAssembly is at the moment based on Asm.js in its current alpha state.

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> You have no idea how hard Asm.js is to "read".

That was not my experience when I ported a large C app over to asm/emscripten. The mapping from C was very transparent. I had no problem using the dev inspector to debug the code.

WebAssembly is still work in progress, isn't it? There are proposals to have 2 text formats: low level one (Asm.js like) and more high level representation [1]. So, I'm dead sure the way out will be found. If not, community will create workaround-ish solutions in a form of "WASM -> language of your choice" decompilers.

[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/pull/457

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