I absolutely do, but thanks for being condescending nonetheless.

Read C source. Then go read the machine code that C compiles into. I assure you that the C is far, far more readable even if you've HEAVILY obfuscated it.

In order to better understand this, I present you with a StackOverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/331474

This:

int get_int(int c);

int main(void) {

    int a = 1, b = 2;

    return getCode(a) + b;

}

Might yield this:

00000000 <main>:

int get_int(int c);

int main(void) { /* here, the prologue creates the frame for main /

   0:   8d 4c 24 04             lea    0x4(%esp),%ecx

   4:   83 e4 f0                and    $0xfffffff0,%esp

   7:   ff 71 fc                pushl  -0x4(%ecx)

   a:   55                      push   %ebp

   b:   89 e5                   mov    %esp,%ebp

   d:   51                      push   %ecx

   e:   83 ec 14                sub    $0x14,%esp

    int a = 1, b = 2; /* setting up space for locals */

  11:   c7 45 f4 01 00 00 00    movl   $0x1,-0xc(%ebp)

  18:   c7 45 f8 02 00 00 00    movl   $0x2,-0x8(%ebp)

    return getCode(a) + b;

  1f:   8b 45 f4                mov    -0xc(%ebp),%eax

  22:   89 04 24                mov    %eax,(%esp)

  25:   e8 fc ff ff ff          call   26 <main+0x26>

  2a:   03 45 f8                add    -0x8(%ebp),%eax

} / the epilogue runs, returning to the previous frame */ 2d: 83 c4 14 add $0x14,%esp

  30:   59                      pop    %ecx

  31:   5d                      pop    %ebp

  32:   8d 61 fc                lea    -0x4(%ecx),%esp

  35:   c3                      ret

I don't know why people find this notion that web assembly probably will make it easier to hide nefarious payloads so offensive. It's demonstrably true! People find out about open source projects "calling home" much, much faster than they do closed source projects.

Go look at the spec. It's at a much lower level of abstraction than JavaScript is. https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/AstSemanti...

There's no real size difference if you gzip it at the webserver.