Comment by mikewarot

>So it's a tiny virtual machine. Intriguing, but not really shocking.

Nope... it's native code, that runs on multiple platforms, all in one small executable.

How? Lots of very clever hacking, and trimming all the accumulated dreck out of the normal C runtime, while making it work across all the supported platforms. (Polyfill is the term she uses)

This is the most amazing thing I've seen in a decade or so. It is right up there with GIT in terms of the possibility space it opens up.