> If WASM would've worked as advertised, allowing fully fledged apps to run easily and natively in the browser with no fuss and 90% native perf, then basically all app stores would've been dead.

Working on that! I'm building hypen.space which is platform agnostic language & SDK for building native crossplatform apps.

It's a WASM engine at it's core, and while currently it doesn't have "package this app as wasm" capability but supports streaming/local apps only, that capability is currently being developed - together with WASI layers for all of the platforms.

That way your app can run either as a browser (DOM) app, browser canvas app, native desktop or native mobile app.

It's still early, but moving fast - I just added accessibility support, and the animation framework will be out this week.

Regarding the WASM disappointed, when I started building this about 6 years ago, WASM was in a terrible (barely usable without wasting a ton of time) state. Now that WASI 0.3 is out and LLMs have sped up development by a large margin, it's in a quite usable state to ship things to production without fear.