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It's not possible. As soon as WebAssembly gets as big as the web, someone will implement a browser-embedded browser in WebAssembly that runs in the browser and

by zzbzq 9y ago

It's not possible. As soon as WebAssembly gets as big as the web, someone will implement a browser-embedded browser in WebAssembly that runs in the browser and we will be back to square 1 in this kafkaesque nightmare we call Web.

chrshawkes 9y ago
Down votes are unfair, this was quite funny.
- btilly 9y ago
  Why would you think that it is a joke? It is true and how things have always gone! When I got into computers it would have been ridiculous to imagine carrying around a computer running a different OS in a virtual machine, within which we were running a virtual network of small virtual machines existed to run programs written in a scripting language that itself runs in a VM! Sounds crazy, right? And yet it isn't rare to find a developer on a Mac laptop running Linux in VirtualBox, inside of which they run Docker containers to run applications built on node.js. This is not done as a joke, it is done because it is a useful development environment for an application that is supposed to eventually be deployed to a cloud. Portable software has been a motivating dream of our industry since forever. It was a selling point of COBOL, Pascal, HTML, Java, Flash, JQuery, and so on and so forth. The idea of deploying a known client target to get rid of browser differences is inevitable. It is just a question of who will be the first to do one that is good and fast enough to get mindshare.
j45 9y ago
Lol. Can't wait for this piece of art to arrive, plus compile JavaScript web apps could compile to binaries
j45 9y ago
Lol. Can't wait for this piece of art to arrive, plus JavaScript web apps could compile to binaries
thousande 9y ago
Like running the Windows version of Gimp in Wine in X Window in Chrome inside Firefox on a Mac? http://imgur.com/a/wRals http://imgur.com/a/wRals From: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

by zzbzq 9y ago

chrshawkes 9y ago

Down votes are unfair, this was quite funny.

btilly 9y ago
Why would you think that it is a joke? It is true and how things have always gone! When I got into computers it would have been ridiculous to imagine carrying around a computer running a different OS in a virtual machine, within which we were running a virtual network of small virtual machines existed to run programs written in a scripting language that itself runs in a VM! Sounds crazy, right? And yet it isn't rare to find a developer on a Mac laptop running Linux in VirtualBox, inside of which they run Docker containers to run applications built on node.js. This is not done as a joke, it is done because it is a useful development environment for an application that is supposed to eventually be deployed to a cloud. Portable software has been a motivating dream of our industry since forever. It was a selling point of COBOL, Pascal, HTML, Java, Flash, JQuery, and so on and so forth. The idea of deploying a known client target to get rid of browser differences is inevitable. It is just a question of who will be the first to do one that is good and fast enough to get mindshare.

j45 9y ago

Lol. Can't wait for this piece of art to arrive, plus compile JavaScript web apps could compile to binaries

j45 9y ago

Lol. Can't wait for this piece of art to arrive, plus JavaScript web apps could compile to binaries

thousande 9y ago

Like running the Windows version of Gimp in Wine in X Window in Chrome inside Firefox on a Mac? http://imgur.com/a/wRals http://imgur.com/a/wRals From: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...