> ... it is now utterly controlled by a small group of browser developers ... If the group is small, it's mainly because the job is very difficult. All browser

> ... it is now utterly controlled by a small group of browser developers ... If the group is small, it's mainly because the job is very difficult. All browsers are a big mess and it takes time to be productive. The idea of asm.js is one of Alon Zakai. He explains on his blog all the experiments he made before concluding with that. A quote from the oldest post I know about emscripten: "I want the speed of native code on the web - because I want to run things like game engines there - but I don't want Java, or NaCl, or some plugin. I want to use standard, platform-agnostic web technologies." http://mozakai.blogspot.fr/2010/07/experiments-with-static-javascript-as.html http://mozakai.blogspot.fr/2010/07/experiments-with-static-j...