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by tomjen3 4307 days ago
Well forever is a _really_ long time, but I wouldn't be too surprised. I mean we still have significant banking infrastructure running on Cobol.

Hopefully browsers will ship with native support for something better, in addition to javascript. A common virtual machine that you could run your code on would be awesome. You can kinda do that today, except JS makes a terrible VM spec.