I love the talk on "The Birth and Death of JavaScript" by Gary Bernhardt: https:...

mythz · on May 10, 2019

The age is nigh, its already become the easiest way to run and install Safari's JavaScriptCore on every platform:

    $ wapm install -g jsc

Can then use `jsc` to execute .js, as a REPL or inline expressions:

    $ jsc -e "console.log([1,2,3].map(x => x*2).reduce((x,acc)=>acc+x))"

syspec · on May 11, 2019

You can also symlink the JavaScript core framework which contains the executable there without installing anything as an alternative

adamnemecek · on May 10, 2019

There's little relationship between wasm and js.

_bxg1 · on May 10, 2019

The talk is more about the web as an application platform, and its values, coming down to OS userland. Whether that means JS or Wasm or both doesn't really matter.

diegoperini · on May 10, 2019

The talk predicts that Js will be dead (for user space) the moment it conquers the OS. Dead in this context means it will be invisible to the app developer just like C.

bobajeff · on May 10, 2019

At the time, asm.js looked like it was going to possibly be the universal bytecode that runs everything. WebAssembly hadn't gone public at that time.