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by Boldewyn 3982 days ago
Of course, if the language of a program is stripped down, the interpreter can be made much safer. But then, we gain nothing from trying to shove down the users’ throats other platforms compared to, say, WebAssembly, which _will_ be shipped in almost all browsers in a year or so.

Just look at the long history of people trying to bring Python in the browser, or the fight to get Java applets _out of the browser_ again.

Basically I read the article as “scrap that web thing, and just begin from scratch”. And this is not a worthwhile path to go for many reasons.