[immibis]

Abstraction layers are hard and have bugs. We should probably figure out a way to reduce the number of abstraction layers. Maybe instead of running the software in a virtual machine with an OS abstraction layer (which is itself a shitty OS), it could compile directly to machine-language instructions and interact with your real OS. You could download this once and run it many times.

[lxgr]

This has nothing to do with machine language vs. VMs. And yes, there are abstraction layers here, but for very good reasons:

You almost certainly don't want every browser tab gaining exclusive address to your sound hardware, for example, which would include things like volume control. It also would make mixing sound from multiple applications/tabs impossible, which is arguably a must-have.