For this to work we need free certificates. Many still keep referring to StartSSL, but there you just pay double later on in revocation fees. https://www.startssl.com/?app=43
Interesting tidbit, MoarVM reuses libuv, the core of Node.js. The whole design seems very goal oriented, yet has all the features you'd expect from a modern VM, from Unicode to threads. Looks promising.
The big questions now, what does this mean for BTC prices and which exchanges can still be trusted? Perhaps a good time to invest after the inevitable collapse tomorrow.
JavaScript is bound to win the web, you just can't compete with a language that's in every browser. But it's a little puzzling to me how Python has managed to establish this devastating dominance over scientific computing.
Just yesterday Perl has once again been declared dead on Hacker News, and here we have it happily strutting along in a keynote about a bleeding edge topic. :)