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The Unity team has already made some tests for their Engine with WebGL and WebAssembly and it seems promising: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2015/06/18/webgl-webassembly-and-fe...

Hopefully we will not need Unity3d to have high-performance C# engines in browser.

How else you will get C# in the browser? C# is high-level, WebAssembly is low-level, something needs to do lowering.

Edit: I don't see how future addition of GC to WebAssembly changes anything I wrote above.

You write a compiler from C# to WebAssembly. I don't see how C# is different from any other language in that regard.

Hopefully it's IL -> WebAssembly, not C# -> WebAssembly.

I think we are in agreement? Unity3d provides C# to JavaScript compiler.

I replied to "Hopefully we will not need compiler to have high-performance C# engines in browser", because that does not make sense.

Unity3d provides C# to JavaScript compiler

Unity3d does too many things (except new versions of C# :P) and ties to itself. There should be a direct C# -> WebAssembly compiler in future.

Unity is much, much more than a compiler. You'd have to drag a lot of stuff with you and deal with a license.