I know what webassembly is. In addition to whatever else it is used for, I hear a lot about it allowing devs to avoid JS and just write browsers apps in whatever language they want to use. That there is a clamor for that is borne out of the massive pain that is the current HTML/CSS/JS based web dev.

So what I'm saying is, instead of wasting innovation effort focusing on the use of to improve the experience of writing web apps, let's use that to solve the actual problems with web dev.