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Article mentions that the compiled code will also run on Node.js, does it mean it will be possible to use all zillions of NPM modules from Go at some point in time?

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Thus solving Go's dependency management problem once and for all.

Solving it by giving it a worse one.

That is the joke.

Worse than pulling master on github, really ?

Npm has issues, but it's still way better than the state of the art of dependency management in Go.

Left-pad was bad but the problem was fixed on npm's side after a couple hours. Go's equivalent isn't fixable: https://mobile.twitter.com/davecheney/status/855049071307792...

Pulling master on github isn't the "state of the art" for Go (it's dep and vgo).

`dep` is pulling directly from github … And `vgo`, while promising, is still a protype not ready for production[0].

[0]: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/vgo#current-state

commit your vendor folder

In Chrome and Node, Wasm code is executed by V8.

V8 can be embedded in C/C++/Go/etc applications. That allows you to use JS for scripting. This is quite different from compiling to Wasm, though.

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