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shevy-javatoday at 6:50 PM0 repliesview on HN

> Yet, it still feels like something is missing that’s holding WebAssembly back from wider adoption on the Web.

> There are multiple reasons for this, but the core issue is that WebAssembly is a second-class language on the web

It would be nice if WebAssembly would really succeed, but I have to be honest: I gave up thinking that it ever will. Too many things are unsolved here. HTML, CSS and JavaScript were a success story. WebAssembly is not; it is a niche thing and getting out of that niche is now super-hard.