This is probably my biggest regret with this article. Much earlier and much more prominently I should've explained that the title is a play on a running joke Andreas Rossberg includes in a couple of his talks "wasm does not stand for webassembly", poking fun at how they named it that to get funding, but always intended it for a more general use case.

I have a nod to it, as you point out, but I think its buried so far beneath the fold most folks have checked out and written it off by then. Live and learn .