Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
WASM has the potential to change the world... a thought: while WASM will initially appear in compute-intense functions in web apps, it has the potential to be a true "Common Language Runtime". It may become the future platform that native, <i>dekstop</i> apps run on.<p>This could be a good thing, if done correctly:<p>1. Desktop apps have a common, safe runtime upon which they run, and the packages can be easily distributed (and verified?) by browsers<p>2. "Web apps" could potentially go away - leaving web browsers for what they were intended, document sharing