Yagrum Bagarn has something for you.
replyNot really: ASM.js became WASM. What killed the possibility of WASM being The One Way to run everything is AI... the one wildcard that Gard Bernhardt didn't predict.
replyTo be honest, with how bad a target WASM is for any existing compiler, I feel like what killed that possibility was WASM itself.
replyIts IR design is horrendeous.