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Obligatory: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

• guscost 5y ago
  This is “inspired in part” by the same (excellent and a little scary) talk. Which makes you think, when would something like this have appeared if the talk had never happened?
  • eximius 5y ago
    Asm.js was already in the wild and referenced in the talk, so while it is humorous, I think the path was already set.
  • pjmlp 5y ago
    Some other bytecode among the dozens in use since the early 1960's would have been chosen instead.
• teeray 5y ago
  This was my first thought when I saw the headline. What I once thought was satire was, in fact, prophecy.
  • ksec 5y ago
    We are lucky nuke didn't happen in 2020, but COVID. And there are people fleeing San Francisco for different reason.