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Then PNaCl came along with a platform-independent bitcode format based on LLVM IR, which was translated to host's native code in the browser.
Then WASM (also platform-independent) came along striving to be a multi-vendor solution. Unlike the other two WASM directly targets the JavaScript engine. It started out as a serialization format for JavaScript AST.
I guess we can thank Steve Jobs for that.
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Startups can't afford that. Therefore they should use older technology until they grow big enough to tank the damage.
This recent push to make everyone a software engineer is such an obvious attempt by companies to push down wages. You will be wasting your spare time trying to reduce your salary.
If you're a JS programmer you should definitely read Crockford's famous JS book, it explains a lot of JS patterns and the rationale behind them.