You can compile any language to JavaScript. jslinux compiled x86 machine code to JavaScript.
So basically wasm is some optimisation. That's fine but it's not something groundbreaking.
And if we remove web from the platform list, there were many portables bytecodes. P-code from Pascal era, JVM bytecode from modern era and plenty of others.
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You can compile any language to JavaScript. jslinux compiled x86 machine code to JavaScript.
So basically wasm is some optimisation. That's fine but it's not something groundbreaking.
And if we remove web from the platform list, there were many portables bytecodes. P-code from Pascal era, JVM bytecode from modern era and plenty of others.