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by liotier 3691 days ago
I feel that the additional layers of indirection are quite costly for the convenience of running programs in a Unix environment inside the browser. I can understand the practicality of that for prototyping, but it seems a bit baroque for a production system.

But then, the idea of heaping Javascript monsters upon a mere browser seemed ludicrous to me 20 years ago - so I may not be the best judge of those sort of things...