Comment by metmac
4 hours ago
I’ll never forget watching Gary Bernhardt give his talk on JavaScript.[0] Was my introduction to asm.js, and the rabbithole associated with compiling code to run in the browser.
12 years on, it’s shocking how much of his fiction became reality.
[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
And if not for the rise of AI it's possible that WASM as a machine-level compilation target for all languages might have happened. As much as Gary predicted he didn't see AI coming.
wait how did AI impede wasm?
I believe the idea is that you don't care what language is being used if you aren't going to look at it anyway. Given that premise, the AI can write JavaScript instead of something you need to compile separately.