People have a misconception—they think that the WebAssembly that landed in browsers back in 2017—is the final version. In fact, we still have many use cases to unlock, from heavy-weight ...
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/10/webassemblys-post-mvp-future
* Emscripten * make this JavaScript run really fast * asm.js * started adding the same optimizations * faster than it is coming in over the network * two compilers * Cranelift * rewritten in Rust * on average 86x faster * faster than non-inlined JavaScript to JavaScript calls. * Scala.js * Reason * Elm * tail calls * POSIX * package name maps * explained it this way * Cranelift * WAVM * brave souls are trying that, too