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Was that the thing where Gary predicted js in the kernel?


How about hardware accelerators to interpret JS? At least it wouldn't break, cause modern JS all transpiles to the old one.


bpf isn't a far stretch from that


yes, although more directly relevant here, chrome-compiled-to-wasm-nested-in-chrome


Firefox'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-weba...




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