Hi,
On 09/09/15 17:41, s p wrote:
Plugins are a bit 2000 ;) flash and java and friends .... they are going to disappear sooner or later
Also Javascript:
https://brendaneich.com/2015/06/from-asm-js-to-webassembly/#buried-lede
At least, JS will probably become relatively less popular as the language for web browsers in the next 5 years in that you will get C compilers (and Java compilers!) targeting .wasm binary. When they get wasm VMs as efficient as the JVM then things are going to get very interesting.
Also LISPs, which everybody knows are about to take over at *any moment* between Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine in 1960 and now. Any moment now, I tell you!
[At this point it's interesting to ask why they didn't just integrate the JVM more tightly/correctly/seamlessly with browsers from about 2001, and, well, *facepalm*.]
Post-wasm browsers, compiling libpd (and maybe even Pd + tcl heh) for the browser becomes a no-brainer because you just tweak the Makefile to ask GCC to target wasm instead of x86 [please apply Hofstadter's law here]. "Won't Take Long" (tm) etc.
Cheers,
Chris.