The Birth & Death of JavaScript | Prime Reacts

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A reaction to Gary Bernhardt's legendary 2014 conference talk 'The Birth and Death of JavaScript,' which predicted the future of the web 20 years out. The talk centers on asm.js as a low-level assembly-like subset of JavaScript that enables any C-compiled code to run in the browser, demonstrated by running Chrome inside Firefox. The prediction that asm.js (and its successor WebAssembly) would replace JavaScript by 2025 is evaluated against reality: WebAssembly 3.0 is gaining features, Cloudflare Workers supports Wasm with Rust/Go/C++, and Figma adopted it — but AI's rise disrupted the predicted trajectory. The more radical prediction of a JavaScript VM in the OS kernel is also discussed.

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