alt Hacker NewsWell - the problem is... the "in theory" means that nobody will bet on WASM if it is not really going to be useful. People use HTML, CSS, JavaScript - that has been shown to be very useful. WASM is not useless but how can people relate to it? It is like an alien stack for most people.
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frez1 • last Friday at 8:39 AM
The way things usually gain traction is when a big tech company has success experimenting with it. it happened with node way back and happening with rust now.
the fact we haven't heard much about was use is probably because it isnt as valuable as we think, or no one has played around with it yet to find out
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It is totally fine if most people don't relate to wasm - it's good for some things, but not most things. As another example, most web devs don't use the video or audio tag, I'd bet, and that's fine too.
Media, and wasm, are really important when you need them, but usually you don't.