The narrative would be more compelling to me if Google didn’t fail to impose their technology on the web so many times.

NaCL? Mozilla won this one. Wasm is a continuation of asm.js.

Dart? It now compiles to Wasm but has mostly failed to replace js while Typescript filled the niche.

Sure, Google didn’t care much for XML. They had a proper replacement for communication and simple serialisation internally in protobuf which they never actually try to push for web use. Somehow json ended up becoming the standard.

I personally don’t give much credit to the theory of Google as a mastermind patiently under minding the open web for years via the standards.

Now if we talk about how they have been pushing Chrome through their other dominant products and how they have manipulated their own products to favour it, I will gladly agree that there is plenty to be said.

> NaCL? Mozilla won this one. Wasm is a continuation of asm.js.

And yet the design of wasm is the way it is to a large extent because of V8 limitations and Google's pushback on having to do any substantial changes for the sake of a clean design.

Amp pages' miserable failure. There's a lot of Google failures.