I’m aware that many HN people view this as a pipe dream, but why? It works. The largest compute platform in the world, namely the web, is like this, and many of

I’m aware that many HN people view this as a pipe dream, but why? It works. The largest compute platform in the world, namely the web, is like this, and many of the largest businesses run on the JVM and the CLR. Loads of nasty problems go away when you are not directly mangling bits in memory and when you have a real runtime. Of course modern safe languages like Rust give you some of those benefits in compiled code too.