> due to efforts of people who love the language
Extremely tangential, but does anybody actually love javascript? We've been in a captive situation with this deeply flawed hack for 20 years.
Once WebAssembly is mature enough to fulfill its promise, and after that once we've burned through the generation born into this JS captivity, is anyone going to want use it anymore?
Like, if it were magically possible to use anything else natively in the browser today, would the next big thing be another 10 million person-hours put into yet another angle on working around JS's flaws... or something in another less clunky language entirely, never to return?