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>What's old is new again I suppose. The browser, in general, feels like a giant step forward. I wish, though, that some ecosystem had evolved where Javascript w

• tyingq 11y ago
  That's somewhat encouraging, but if I understand it correctly, it would only be practical for static typed languages. Something like Lua, Python, etc, would be more desirable to me.
  • vmorgulis 11y ago
    It's a byte code (in an ast form) so any language could run. I think the step after can be around package management (like in linux distros) and full virtualisation in the browser. We can even imagine the browser becoming useless so we could move to something new for AI, drones and robots where webdesign is not a priority (simpler UI like apps for mobiles).
    • tyingq 11y ago
      Not anytime soon, as far as I can tell: Brendan Eich: "wasm is really starting out as a target for static languages like C++, it’s gonna be a while before we get other future extensions to wasm like garbage collection and just-in-time compile to wasm, features we need for dynamic languages to perform well, that’s gonna take a while to do, too"