I know what webassembly is. In addition to whatever else it is used for, I hear a lot about it allowing devs to avoid JS and just write browsers apps in whatever language they want to use. That there is a clamor for that is borne out of the massive pain that is the current HTML/CSS/JS based web dev.
So what I'm saying is, instead of wasting innovation effort focusing on the use of to improve the experience of writing web apps, let's use that to solve the actual problems with web dev.
"In addition to whatever else it's used for" is pulling a lot of weight there. People excited about it just for not writing JavaScript just aren't aware of what's out there. There's so many ways to avoid using JS these days. The value add of web assembly has always been portability and sandboxing. This is a big deal for software preservation.
making web apps is the least exciting thing wasm could be used for. plugin systems, embedded, serverless use cases are much more interesting off the top of my head.
i think we live in a world where we can do both: we can do wasm and we can continue making improvements to the big three webdev tools.
So what I'm saying is, instead of wasting innovation effort focusing on the use of to improve the experience of writing web apps, let's use that to solve the actual problems with web dev.