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To be fair, as the author points out, they did it to themselves to get coverage to work on the project. The name means that WASM can be used in a big way on the web, but I appreciate the perspective that it’s applicable to way more than just the web. Even if the article title is definitely exaggerated for effect in service of that point.

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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 .

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