So we got rid of browser plugins like flash because they were "unsafe" and we "magically" couldn't "sandbox" them for a decade. Then somehow we come up with a new thing that is "sandboxed" (trust us, it is, because WASM!), so let's use that instead and recompile arbitrary binary plugins for that and run it in the browser (what could go wrong).
Really, without all the details/nuance, it sounds like we shot ourselves in the foot, went down a wrong path because of it, and now we're full-circle back to where we started. Except now the web is drastically different and the browser is now our one and true only terminal to the Holy Server that is Google et al.
This is hyperbolic. We could sandbox browser plugins, and did, but this broke a ton of things than used plugins because they expected not to be run in a sandbox.
Are you afraid of JavaScript in your browser? Perhaps you are, and that's fair, but WASM is no more dangerous than the JavaScript that everyone already runs.
Really, without all the details/nuance, it sounds like we shot ourselves in the foot, went down a wrong path because of it, and now we're full-circle back to where we started. Except now the web is drastically different and the browser is now our one and true only terminal to the Holy Server that is Google et al.
/end of rant