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The browser is gonna become like a front for a distributed OS.

Yep. We already have threads.

What I find most painful about this development is that this new platform requires Javascript and wrapping everything inside an HTML document.

WebAssebly is here to let one replace Javascript. Not to depend on it.

(It's the other way around, if you want to keep using Javascript, the expectation is that you'll start to depend on WebAssemby in the future.)

It might go that way eventually, but right now, you still have to deal with JS at least to load up the wasm program and get a useful result out of it to present to the user.

I guess we will see some changes to this as well, if Webassembly really takes off. Which is what it looks like. Could be interesting to see the kind of security issues this brings.

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