WebAssembly’s post-MVP future
I'm reminded a bit of Java's early days when Sun was able to create the illusion that it would take over the world. WebAssembly has had a lot of early success and its limits are hazy, but it seems like they must be out there somewhere? To speculate:<p>On the server side, it seems like docker format has already won. Maybe cpu architecture portability doesn't matter there and x86 is good enough? Although serverless and edge computing often use JavaScript.<p>On mobile this seems to depend on Apple and/or Google deciding to support WebAssembly for native apps, which seems unlikely.<p>Developers need laptops to run their development environment in. I'm wondering if this might just be Linux tools running in a container on your laptop. Chromebooks seem to be moving in that direction.<p>The revival of something like Sandstorm might be interesting, but that's pretty speculative.