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With this technology's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.
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Yagrum Bagarn has something for you.
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Not really: ASM.js became WASM. What killed the possibility of WASM being The One Way to run everything is AI... the one wildcard that Gard Bernhardt didn't predict.
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To be honest, with how bad a target WASM is for any existing compiler, I feel like what killed that possibility was WASM itself.

Its IR design is horrendeous.

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I re-watch that presentation two or three times a year because it's a great example of how to give a presentation, how to structure your slide deck to complement your presentation, and a surprisingly educational tour of the permission rings architecture of operating systems.

And at some point we're going to have a period or war and our psychological attachments to old programming paradigms will be released so that we can move on to a more advanced way of doing things (but that won't stop your bank from running YavaScript for at least another 85 years).

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Just substitute asm.js with WASM and you're still on the right track.
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Don't worry, YavaScript will live forever.
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In Germany, it's still not uncommon to hear Yava and YavaScript.
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I understand that Jawohl is still quite popular there, but JawohlScript adoption is sadly lagging.
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It's the only pronunciation you'll hear in Iceland
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I still refer to it as YavaScript much to the confusion of junior devs. I just tell the new kids: "you had to be there..."
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If we substituted war with COVID we aren't that far off as both happened in 2020. We still have to wait till 2035 to see if true.
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