asm.js is brilliant because of the current situation we are in. However, the current situation we are in is silly, and can correctly be called a "tragedy of the

asm.js is brilliant because of the current situation we are in. However, the current situation we are in is silly, and can correctly be called a "tragedy of the commons." Why? Well, for example, is JavaScript truly the best language we'd be able to create for browser scripting, or did it win by historical accident? (And I'm actually a fan of Javascript programming!) And beyond that, we'd all like something that gives us safe native-speed rendering control in the "sandbox". Silverlight was meant to, as was Flash/Flex. But those were proprietary, and we didn't want one company to have "control of the web." HTML 5 hasn't been what we hoped for. So basically, we're one big, divided bureaucracy that is not making rational decisions (what big divided bureaucracy does?). I guess what might happen is something new will eventually come along (who knows how long it will be) that actually displaces the web as we know it. It will be an adoption-tsunami, similar to what the web itself was, and therefore it will be able to ignore this series of historical accidents that we're chained to today.