Comment by cyrusradfar

Ah, I'm always up for a tangent.

The boring answer from Capt. Obvious. Incentive alignment.

That said, WebAssembly might be the trojan horse. While it started as a browser compile target, WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) is extending it beyond browsers into filesystem, networking, etc. etc. etc.

Fingers crossed, we may get cross-platform standards by accident.