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Hmm, maybe language runetimes can be dynamically linked and hosted by the language maintainers. Everyone imports the official library so the odds of the user already having most of everything cached is high.

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Aren't cache gained savings a myth? Browsers have cache in magnitude of tens of megabytes and most sites have different versions of everything.

Well, subresource integrity was not a thing before.

This would be cool: shared objects over internet. Interesting direction to explore.

Oberon, Java, Limbo, .NET, Flash, ActiveX already explored it.

if we were satisfied with that answer we wouldn't be talking about wasm at all.

It all boils down to politics.

Flash bad, Flash compiled to wasm, good.

AppFS (http://AppFS.rkeene.org/) supports this

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