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Feels like most of the disappointment comes from the wrong expectation. Wasm was never going to replace HTML/CSS/JS for normal frontend work, and JS got good enough that most apps don’t need it anyway. On the other hand, Wasm as a universal runtime (WASI replacing containers, etc.) is clearly still unfinished.

Where it has worked is as infrastructure: fast, sandboxed, portable code for the parts that actually need it. A lot of people are already using it indirectly without realizing. So it’s less "what happened to Wasm?" and more "it didn’t become the silver bullet people imagined."