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The Birth and Death of Javascript really had the gift of prophecy, eh
by swiftcoder 4mo ago
The Birth and Death of Javascript really had the gift of prophecy, eh
- neocron 4mo agoWas that the thing where Gary predicted js in the kernel?
- swiftcoder 4mo agoyes, although more directly relevant here, chrome-compiled-to-wasm-nested-in-chrome
- yencabulator 4mo agoFirefox's font rendering is sandboxed by being C/C++-compiled-to-wasm-then-aot-compiled-to-native-code. Yavascript is dead, all hail WASM. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-webassembly/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-weba...
- SSLy 4mo agobpf isn't a far stretch from that
- frollogaston 4mo agoHow about hardware accelerators to interpret JS? At least it wouldn't break, cause modern JS all transpiles to the old one.