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neocron
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Was that the thing where Gary predicted js in the kernel?
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frollogaston
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How about hardware accelerators to interpret JS? At least it wouldn't break, cause modern JS all transpiles to the old one.
SSLy
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bpf isn't a far stretch from that
swiftcoder
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yes, although more directly relevant here, chrome-compiled-to-wasm-nested-in-chrome
yencabulator
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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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