> While tremendously valuable, using WebAssembly in a web browser is not what excites me.
The article should have been titled "Why Am I Excited About WebAssembly Outside The Browser?"
The reasons the author gives don't seem that exciting.
I'm excited about WebAssembly in the browser because, as other commenters have pointed out, this allows a new area of delivering executables to run in a sandboxed browser tab with just a click. Convenience, speed and safety. I think it fulfills the early promise of the internet before the malicious hackers got to it. Some might want to say here that this is still insecure, but it's a lot more secure than downloading and running a binary on the main OS.
There's literally nothing wrong with the title. The author doesn't have to qualify their excitement because it might not be for the same reasons as others.
The article should have been titled "Why Am I Excited About WebAssembly Outside The Browser?"
The reasons the author gives don't seem that exciting.
I'm excited about WebAssembly in the browser because, as other commenters have pointed out, this allows a new area of delivering executables to run in a sandboxed browser tab with just a click. Convenience, speed and safety. I think it fulfills the early promise of the internet before the malicious hackers got to it. Some might want to say here that this is still insecure, but it's a lot more secure than downloading and running a binary on the main OS.