The baseline in the past was that your program ran on bare metal or in the windowing system being written in assembly or C/Pascal. Nowadays your program runs in

The baseline in the past was that your program ran on bare metal or in the windowing system being written in assembly or C/Pascal. Nowadays your program runs in the browser which runs in the Windowing system, your program being written in 20 levels deep JS abstractions. They call this progress.