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asm.js came about because Mozzilla refused to adopt PNaCL, which is kind of ironic given the existing Firefox market share a decade later.

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PNaCL was essentially "let's shove LLVM into every browser and make it a mandatory part of the web", which somehow seems even worse than "let's shove the JVM into every browser and make it a mandatory part of web"

Given Google's power a decade later, with Safari left as the only non-Chrome clone with market relevance, it hardly makes a difference.

Additionally we already have LLVM all over the place, alongside JVM and CLR, it is the most deployed compiler infrastructure with contributions at the same level as the Linux kernel.

>"let's shove the JVM into every browser and make it a mandatory part of web"

Javagator / Jazilla!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/javagator-down-not-o...

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