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Let me see. A lazy developer that only knows Ruby compiles the entire Ruby interpreter into WASM just to run Ruby. Then the user clicks a button that does an API fetch and the whole browser freezes while it waits for the response. . . . Yeah not happening. WASM was built and meant for high performance low level languages, there is no way in Ruby and Python will make the cut.

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That lazy developer will download a Ruby WASM based VM that someone else compiled for them.

Also the revival of Java, .NET, Flash, ActiveX is already brewing, this is not only about Python and Ruby.

Just doing games in Unity, compile to WASM and deploy, just like plain old Flash.

And while at it, use the 2D GUI to build a complete web site, just like plain old Flash.

The difference is now we can all be happy, because it is a Web standard.

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