> .I think it's interesting that WebAssembly moves the "code bloat problem" into focus again, because WebAssembly apps cannot afford to have huge upfront downloads or long installations. They must start in a second or so. The Tetris example is under 60 kBytes (compressed), and that includes all data as well (there's a sprite/font sheet embedded in the wasm blob). This is in the same general size range as 8-bit BASIC programs.

Original Tetris was under 32k, and competition implementations since have been under 512 bytes.

60K plus webkit plus OS is plenty of bloat still