[oblio]

On the other hand, if you thought modern browsers are bloated, just wait for everyone to compile their runtimes on top of WASM.

It's not very hard to imagine, especially in an enteprise environment, running a browser 15-20 years from now and that browser loading the equivalent of the JVM, .NET CLR, Ruby VM, etc., on top of WASM :)

[krapp]

15-20 years from now, it's likely that "browser" will just be the operating system.

[missblit]

This actually reminds me of "es-operating-system"; an experimental operating system copyrighted by Nintendo (yes, Nintendo!), where "every system API is defined in Web IDL".

AFAIK it never went anywhere, but maybe building an entirely new OS/Browser based around WebIDL seemed less insane 10 years ago.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/es-operating-system/

[goatlover]

We'll all have gigabit connections by then. So even though it'll be 100 mb of bloat, it will still load the same as today ;)

[gavinpc]

Yes but they'll be pwned by the FCC (and friends). Don't count on it.