alt Hacker NewsI’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.