The web was an app delivery platform 20 years ago, at least that’s what the folks at Sun and Adobe tried to tell us. But then everyone pitched a collective fit and rejected injection of a runtime container into the browser. Now we have the current situation of an inferior technology and architecture being used as an app delivery platform. If one views a web browser as a proper platform for hosting applications I’d argue WASM and even the aforementioned tech (applets/flash) are superior.