Approaching the JavaScript Singularity

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Argues that a real convergence is already happening: ES Modules land in Node (experimental in v12) so module syntax interoperates, WebAssembly replaces heavy native addons (single compile, ~10 KB wasm modules, ~10× speedups shown in Firefox devtools and Chrome image tooling), and DOM-Node.js API convergence brings workers, fetch, and permissioned system APIs so browser-style sandboxes, filesystem and network capabilities can be reused across platforms and experiments like iodide and VS Code in the browser already work.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:28BIRTH OF THE GREAT DIVIDE
3. 12:41CODE SEPARATION IN JAVASCRIPT
4. 25:46EXPERIMENTATION IS ESSENTIALI

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