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Since the topic is WASM here; here is the webassembly working group: https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/wasm/participants
15 Google, 7 Microsoft and rest are 1-2 seats max.
WebRTC https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webrtc/participants
22 Google, 12 Microsoft, 7 Mozilla, rest are 1-2 seats max
Web Performance https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webperf/participants
32 Google, 10 Meta
And the situation is similar in most groups: https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/
I agree that making the web work better is good for Google. But making the web good and advertiser friendly even at the cost of users and their privacy is better for them.
I don't have any data but I feel like most people (technical or not) are thinking the same as me.
And Figma could be a 20B buyout without WASM. I don't see any relevancy about valuation and a specific tech choice. Figma's editor is a very good use case for WASM -especially since they have the right people in the team- but there are other ways to achieve the same thing (even just by using JS).
I'm not saying this is what we should do but it's what will happen probably: Freeze Nato accession, send guns, helmets etc. Basically whatever happened to Ukraine.
Owner deliberately created a bus factor issue and decided to violate sanctions against North Korea.
The gist is; there are options and there are tradeoffs.