Re:Why I Still Use Vim
by falcolas on Thursday January 04, 2018 @09:56AM
(#16070694)
Slightly modified for a more probable representation of the future:
[...]
"Why the hell do you need so much RAM, what's the point?"
"It's a Chrome box running web-native apps."
"Oh..."
WASM is defining our future. It might not be chrome boxes, it could be Safari boxes, or Edge boxes, or Brave boxes, or... Why use MacOS/Windows/Linux when everything is available to a sufficiently powerful JS interpreter with built-in sandboxing?
[...]
"Why the hell do you need so much RAM, what's the point?"
"It's a Chrome box running web-native apps."
"Oh..."
WASM is defining our future. It might not be chrome boxes, it could be Safari boxes, or Edge boxes, or Brave boxes, or... Why use MacOS/Windows/Linux when everything is available to a sufficiently powerful JS interpreter with built-in sandboxing?