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I think what makes it different is the importance of the project.

JavaScript garbage collection is here to stay, and it seems like it's the most sticky one of all the examples you mentioned.

Other languages and applications/libraries have to adapt to it even if it's inferior in many cases.

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Fair enough. I'd say the JVM and CLR are quite important and "sticky" as well on the server-side ;) But on the client-side, there is no contest, JavaScript (and thus WebAssembly) are the only option.

Just wanted to note that webassembly doesn't imply client, especially since docker's somewhat native support appeared

WASM also looks really good for native plugins and modifications (it's fast and secure by default).

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