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Re:Show HN: CheerpX – x86 Node.js/python3/Ruby REPL in brows... by f1refly on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @03:41PM (#25650729)
Can we maybe, at some point, all agree that we can now stop putting more parts of the operating system into the browser? Aside from the tech demo aspect (which is moot imo, since webassembly is obviously capable of everything regular assembly would be), why would anyone want to run a binary inside the webbrowser in a virtual javascript machine that he could just run on the regular machine anyways?

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