They have been tamed in the past. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but Google Native Client was completely discontinued and wasm was adopted eventually. I see that as a victory for the open internet.
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I'm not sure WASM is markedly different from PNaCL, other than using SSA-based LLVM bitcode instead of a stack-based bytecode.
It's a well-defined standard with lots of different implemenetations, instead of "whatever Chrome does", tied to one specific codegen backend.
That's a huge difference.