Browsers will replace Javascript with a VM as an standard way to run code.

Created by wslh on 2013-05-28; known on 2023-05-28

• wslh estimated 100% on 2013-05-28
• wslh changed their prediction from “Browsers will replace Javascript with VM as an standard way to run code.” on 2013-05-28
• procran estimated 50% on 2013-06-02
• procran said “Note that switching to another language which doesn’t use a VM would mean this production is false.” on 2013-06-02
• RandomThinker said “what if javascript runs in a VM, so it’s not replaced?” on 2013-06-02
• gwern said “this sounds very fragile to advanced techniques. what if browsers only accept JS, but like an ‘x86’ processor, the JS is interpreted to some new bytecode?” on 2013-06-02
• quanticle estimated 25% and said “It’s possible, but I don’t think it’s very likely. Mozilla’s asm.js is already down to .5x native speed, and it seems like there’s still more progress there.” on 2013-06-03
• a0c4a123f7 estimated 15% and said “I’d have expected a bytecode style solution letting any language be used to be an HTML 5 thing if done at all” on 2013-06-10
• quanticle estimated 75% and said “WebAssembly is coming.” on 2015-06-25
• Afforess estimated 75% on 2015-06-25
• thompsonpaz said “<br><br><a href="http://discountuggs49.webs.com"> blog </a><br><br>” on 2015-11-17
• quanticle estimated 40% and said “It looks like the Webassembly standard is gaining adherents. I think it’s more possible that browsers will replace their current JS runtimes with something that runs JS on a webassembly VM.” on 2017-01-02