It looks like that talk is from 2014. Ideas like that had been talked about for many years -- that is, moving all of computing to the browser. July 2007: Atw

It looks like that talk is from 2014. Ideas like that had been talked about for many years -- that is, moving all of computing to the browser. July 2007: Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/ JSLinux by Fabrice Bellard in 2011: https://bellard.org/jslinux/ https://bellard.org/jslinux/ As far as I remember, the addition of Typed arrays to JavaScript made this feasible. In typical Bellard fashion, he didn't really talk about it -- he just demonstrated it!