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The prophesy has come true... https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-
by brian_herman 6y ago
The prophesy has come true...
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
- re 6y agoIs there a relevant timestamp for those of us not wanting to invest 30 minutes in the full talk?
- ToFab123 6y agoNo. Not really. It a fascinating talk to watch so you are not going to totally waste those 30 minutes.
- phoe-krk 6y agoYes, 0:00-29:23. The point of the talk is not laid out during a single moment; it's more like a story that unfolds over time, allowing the reader to understand its implications bit by bit.
- ant6n 6y agoI think I actually saw this talk live. What are the chances. Definitely worth checking out, it’s pretty fun.
- brian_herman 6y agoWow I am so jealous!
- josephg 6y agoDoes it run Firefox? I’d love to see a browser in a browser, just to experience mediocrity in all its awful glory. Networking would be tricky, but you could encapsulate TCP over a custom websocket tunnel.
- exikyut 6y agoNo, but it does run NetSurf: http://www.boxedwine.org/app/netsurf/ http://www.boxedwine.org/app/netsurf/ ...with exactly the caveat you described, because the wasm port doesn't support websockets yet. Alternatively you can run *cough* IE6 in JSLinux.
- anthk 6y agoYou can run w2k and probably XP under TinyEmu JS.
- marvin8 6y agov86 has Firefox: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=archlinux&c=./networking.sh;echo%20firefox>.xinitrc;./startx.sh https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=archlinux&c=./networking.sh;ech...
- EvilEy3 6y agoWhat prophesy? It is written in C++.
- mywacaday 6y agoIf we are living in a simulation it's slightly more troubling that it might be running in a browser.
- ineedasername 6y agoIt would explain why time seems to go by so slow when a person is bored: Not many people want to watch that simulation, so lack of CPU cycles slows everything down.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoI always hoped we were running in a VM written in Rust rather than python or javascript. But it's hard to explain the platypus with a rust based one...
- mywacaday 6y agoIf we are in a simulation how could we force a buffer overflow and what would it look like to us
- eliasbagley 6y agoyou'd probably need a particle accelerator or something