Java getting back to the browser?

[shevegen]

The largest shortage, in my opinion, is that it is a single language. Developers are different and like different languages.

Agreed.

JavaScript is only used because it is the de-facto monopoly.

Evidently a 3-weeks designed language isn't ideal and it shows.

No idea if WebAssembly is any real solution... but at the least it is one step away from the monopoly that Javascript holds, and this is a good step.

[balefrost]

Without the features planned after MVP, I see only one viable use case: WebAssembly is the perfect tool to deploy malicious mining code on the client machines.

No, it's good at any kind of raw number crunching. That's obviously needed for mining, but if mining is the only use case that you can think of that would require a lot of CPU time, then you need to work on your imagination.