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>"Is there any concern for that with WebAssembly?"

Not really. NaCL was limited to a single browser, and asm.js was a stepping stone towards a bytecode for the web. WebAssembly has support from the major browser makers, plus a (mostly) clean slate for developing a bytecode suitable for the web. This is a golden opportunity for the web to evolve into a high performance application platform.

As for tooling, C# and Java are anomalies, no other languages come close. What sets those two languages apart? They're very popular in the commercial world, and they're based on virtual machines (C++ and JS may have decent tools, but I'd rather debug C# than, and part of that is the ability of the compiler to understand the program structure). A universally supported bytecode for the web is very likely to decent tooling.



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