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One of the reasons PHP gained so much traction was because it is very easy to deploy and run, no dependency hell. WASM is self-contained and has the same property.

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Now it is the battle of keeping the zillions of JavaScript packages vs PHP packages up … to … date.

I think WASM may have bigger problems with external vulnerability assessment team identifying those modules by version that got broken.

I don't think they're different issues in terms of solution, important, of course.

WASM is the wrong level of the software stack to check for outdated versions, that's the host language's package manager's job.

Wrong? There isn’t a right or wrong about this.

It is often the job of vulnerability assessment team to get down to the root of the misbehaving components, WASM or not.

Yes there is. Fixing WASM for anything but VM holes is like changing your CPU because your Login screen accepts "password" as valid for every user name.

Until you encounter a misbehavin’ module.

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