> Language portability is a big feature.

It's a big feature of JS. JS's dynamism makes it super easy to target for basically any language.

> Google switched to compiling Java to Wasm-GC instead of JS and got a lot of memory/speed improvements.

That's cool. But that's one giant player getting success out of a project that likely required massive investment and codesign with their browser team.

Think about how sad it is that these are the kinds of successes you have to cite for a technology that has had as much investment as wasm!

> Almost 6% of page loads use wasm

You can disable wasm and successfully load more than 94% of websites.

A lot of that 6% is malicious ads running bitcoin mining.

> Wasm is way too complicated to use today.

I'm articulating why it's complicated. I think that for those same reasons, it will continue to be complicated