[dmoney]

There are and will always be large classes of apps for which Javascript in a browser isn't a reasonable approach.

Why wouldn't JavaScript and browsers continue to evolve until that isn't the case?

[ajg1977]

Clearly they will, assuming you are willing to wait a few generations of hardware for them to become powerful enough.

I think there's now a Javascript port of Quake 2 that's just about playable on a modern PC. That game's 13 years old.

[dustingetz]

i speculate this particular case is done entirely in software.

[ajg1977]

And when it launched, Quake 2 supported software rendering at fairly respectable framerates.

My point is that for applications that requires any degree of processor power javascript will struggle to match native hardware that's many generations old.

[dustingetz]

processing power isn't the point; the browsers must/may evolve to expose hardware features.