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Re:Maybe you don't need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS (2... by tyingq on Thursday June 24, 2021 @11:50AM (#27619346)
>aren't going to see major performance improvements by dropping into WASM

I think that might also change as they add proposal and roadmap items like "direct access to the DOM"[1] to WASM.

Proposals: https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals

Roadmap: https://webassembly.org/roadmap/

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/interface-types/blob/master/p...

Edit: Overall, the proposals seem to be pushing WASM closer to being a general purpose VM (VM as in JVM, not KVM).

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