>> "IMHO that would be a catastrophic regression in the software space, easily a black swan event, if you say needed to compile software differently between major cloud vendors just to deploy."
Wasm blobs seem poised to moot this in the next 10 years. So many things on the desktop have already moved to the web or Electron. Server-side applications turning into browser-executed blobs backed by one of a few database systems still on the server is the next logical step.
I am tired of wasm hype. Can someone explain what it does so well than existing cross platform solutions like CLR / JVM? It doesn't yet have a GC nor is most efficient for that matter. And JIT is not efficient in terms of memory and power compared to native code.
Wasm blobs seem poised to moot this in the next 10 years. So many things on the desktop have already moved to the web or Electron. Server-side applications turning into browser-executed blobs backed by one of a few database systems still on the server is the next logical step.