Oct 23, 2026 · 26 min · 8 segments
WebAssembly Unleashed is back with a conversation that goes beyond hype and into what’s actually holding Wasm back from broader adoption. Hosts Joel Moses and Oscar Spencer are joined by Ryan Hunt…
Oscar SpencerHost
And so speaking of that meeting, for our listeners who might not have ever gone to a standards body meeting, I would say the closest thing to throwing hands might have happened between some of the different browser vendors out there where some of the Google Chrome folks kind of pushed back and said, oh, yeah.
Can't we just make JavaScript faster? Can we just do this with more JavaScript? You know, what is your take on, you know, such a question?
But I did sense that like very quickly, there was a lot of clamoring for the mic after the presentation.
It's a little bit of how much does this really matter? They kind of come from the perspective of we don't have people coming to us asking us for improved API performance.
And so we're not really quite sure if we believe that this is that significant, which is a fair perspective i would just come at it from there's a lot of people who don't who aren't asking because it's just been so long and nothing's really ever happened and uh so i think there's a there can be a bit of a blind spot of The people who show up are the power users.
And I've heard this every time I've presented on it that people are like, I've been waiting for this for a long time.
And then the other question is like, is there a simpler way that we can do this? which is also another fair perspective because we don't want to bloat the web with overcomplicated features.
We really do try and do things incrementally and do the minimal solution to fix the problem we have.
And my perspective on that is, A, I think there's some concerns that the CompileMall is bigger than it is.
And also, B, I think that once you kind of wrestle with what the problem actually is, you'll see that there's not a lot to the solution that you don't need.
We'll do something else, and we'll kind of invent it from first principles for whatever we want.
And so speaking of that meeting, for our listeners who might not have ever gone to a standards body meeting, I would say the closest thing to throwing hands might have happened between some of the different browser vendors out there where some of the Google Chrome folks kind of pushed back and said, oh, yeah.
Can't we just make JavaScript faster? Can we just do this with more JavaScript? You know, what is your take on, you know, such a question?
But I did sense that like very quickly, there was a lot of clamoring for the mic after the presentation.
It's a little bit of how much does this really matter? They kind of come from the perspective of we don't have people coming to us asking us for improved API performance.
And so we're not really quite sure if we believe that this is that significant, which is a fair perspective i would just come at it from there's a lot of people who don't who aren't asking because it's just been so long and nothing's really ever happened and uh so i think there's a there can be a bit of a blind spot of The people who show up are the power users.
And I've heard this every time I've presented on it that people are like, I've been waiting for this for a long time.
And then the other question is like, is there a simpler way that we can do this? which is also another fair perspective because we don't want to bloat the web with overcomplicated features.
We really do try and do things incrementally and do the minimal solution to fix the problem we have.
And my perspective on that is, A, I think there's some concerns that the CompileMall is bigger than it is.
And also, B, I think that once you kind of wrestle with what the problem actually is, you'll see that there's not a lot to the solution that you don't need.
We'll do something else, and we'll kind of invent it from first principles for whatever we want.
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