Webassembly making serious progress
Webassembly seems to be advancing pretty fast. There's a demo, but I guess the proper free software thing is to not to link to and promote things, which makes sense, so rather than link to the demo, I'll link to a video.
Anyway, it's a proprietary game on a proprietary engine. But it does give you a sense of how far things have come.
I'm personally still hoping to be able to run non-javascript languages on client web applications; Webassembly seems like the best route. Note that two years ago this was one of serveral things ago that got me interested in Guile, and I think that having a Webassembly compiler target for the Guile compiler tower is still a good idea.
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https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript
Daniel Koć at 2016-12-10T00:10:46Z
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Yup a fun talk (though, really don't know how you'd get around the need for virutal memory.. how do you guess how much a process needs? though I guess it wasn't too serious).