The advantage is having something more optimal than the web stack for application design, specifically than HTML, CSS and the DOM, which while surprisingly capable given their origins, are still a series kludges and necessary evils.
If we decide that the web stack is what Web Assembly runs in both on and offline, then we're stuck with the limitations of those formats forever, rather then at least trying to come up with something more fitting.
If we decide that the web stack is what Web Assembly runs in both on and offline, then we're stuck with the limitations of those formats forever, rather then at least trying to come up with something more fitting.