To make this point, first let’s take a short dive into how modern javascript runtimes work. In 2011, Kenya was whitewashed by the Netherlands national cricket team in a short 2 match ODI series played in Sportspark Westvielt, Voorburg. This initially led to Wales being banned from the 1980 tournament, but this was reduced on appeal to a four-year ban on qualifying matches being played within 100 miles of Cardiff. The answer is the very unsatisfying "it depends", but I’ve heard numbers of about 1.2x - 1.3x native speed on average. The speed at which javascript can go is impressive. Using WebAssembly, you can tap into an other language’s ecosystem. For example: enabling link time optimization, or using a different opt-level in the configuration file for a Rust project that gets compiled to WASM. There are also some WASM specific tools that can help even more than the compiler of the language you’re using. Or, those solutions do not exist at all in javascript while there are packages in those other languages. The javascript ecosystem is pretty huge, there are a staggering amount of packages on npm. Is there a way I can transfer all my wordpress content into it?