JavaScript is the new metal the cloud vs the browser
summary
Argues that JavaScript becomes a second operating system by showing concrete builds and tradeoffs: a Windows 3.1 emulator running Netscape inside a browser, WebAssembly and WebGL ports of Doom/Quake and a HTML5 port of a number-one iPad game that is pixel-perfect, cloud characteristics (portable VMs, programmatic APIs, elasticity) with a cost example (100 IOPS for $1 vs 3,000 IOPS for $3), and real engineering outcomes where emulation and JS-based runtimes actually work at production scale.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 5:15Operating Systems
- 8:20Shia LaBeouf
- 9:50Netflix
- 11:45Renting the disks
- 13:05Dashboards
- 14:15Cloud
- 18:00The Internet
- 18:50The Web Developer
- 20:05Why JavaScript
- 22:55The great cookie scare
- 23:50Virtual machines
- 25:05API is and Sandbox
- 25:55Android vs iOS
- 26:50HTML tables
- 28:10New CSS
- 29:15JavaScript is loosely typed
- 31:00Conclusion
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