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Think LISP vs COBOL. Both are Turing complete. What you can implement in one, you can implement in the other. But the spec for one is much much larger than
by hello_computer 2y ago
Think LISP vs COBOL. Both are Turing complete. What you can implement in one, you can implement in the other. But the spec for one is much much larger than the other.
With the virtualization/containerization facilities baked into common desktop OSes today, we could deliver a complete (and far more secure) experience, needing only a fraction of the boilerplate WHATWG stuffed into Chrome and Firefox over the years.
And with the magic of compilers, we could transpile most existing work down to the new simplified VM. Most “web apps” are already getting transpiled from typescript/javascript to minified javascript. Changing the target is not an insurmountable task.