I'm going to assume you're being sincere. But even the crustiest among us can recognize that the modern purpose for web browsers is not (merely) documents. Chances are, many folks on HN in the last month have booked tickets for a flight or bought a home or a car or watched a cat video using the "document browser".
> If we think we need a more thoroughly virtualized machine than traditional operating system processes give us (which I think is obvious)...
Like ... the WASM virtual machine? What if the WASM virtual machine were the culmination of learning from previous not-quite-good-enough VMs?
WASM -- despite its name -- is not truly bound to the "document" browser.
I'm going to assume you're being sincere. But even the crustiest among us can recognize that the modern purpose for web browsers is not (merely) documents. Chances are, many folks on HN in the last month have booked tickets for a flight or bought a home or a car or watched a cat video using the "document browser".
> If we think we need a more thoroughly virtualized machine than traditional operating system processes give us (which I think is obvious)...
Like ... the WASM virtual machine? What if the WASM virtual machine were the culmination of learning from previous not-quite-good-enough VMs?
WASM -- despite its name -- is not truly bound to the "document" browser.