What makes WebAssembly like Flash?  Please elaborate.<p>You already can&#x27;t just read someone&#x27;s JavaScript code if they&#x27;re using a transpiler or uglify or something like that, it looks like line noise and you basically have to go through a lot of work to reverse engineer it.  WebAssembly is no worse.<p>The JavaScript environment on the web reminds me of the &quot;walled gardens&quot; that were Lisp machines back in the day, that force you to write code in Lisp, or if you wanted to write in C you would get end up with a bit of a nightmare on your hands.  The Lisp machines were beautiful and integrated and the source code was everywhere, but they weren&#x27;t for everybody, and in the end it was the diversity of Windows, Unix, and Mac OS that replaced them.<p>WebAssembly is Unix, JavaScript is a Lisp machine.