Once in a while I will try to convince co-workers about the idea in this video, and every time I am viewed as an ignoramus. I mean, OBVIOUSLY moving all code to web platforms is a good idea, right? How dare I view things differently?
I think efforts to convey this idea outside of a lecture are probably forfeit. People are just far too self serving and contrarian to believe in the legitimacy of an overall trend if any tiny, limited, counter examples exist, and they will stop listening if they have an opportunity to respond.
Is the introduction of WASM a sort of compatibility layer combining this tree of dependencies?
In the sense that all users are again able to share/create code/'apps' that are compatible on all architectures and software stacks. I can imagine a future where the OS is just the snappiest way to render a browser and nothing else. (Although my experience with the chromebook blunts this desire a great deal.)
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In the sense that all users are again able to share/create code/'apps' that are compatible on all architectures and software stacks. I can imagine a future where the OS is just the snappiest way to render a browser and nothing else. (Although my experience with the chromebook blunts this desire a great deal.)