Mark Gritter<p>I am an old now because I remember the last time "run compiled code in the browser" was a thing. But I'm not sure anybody else does, with all the takes about how running a virtual machine (and Java!) in the browser is such a great thing? </p><p>Is there a good historically-minded writeup about how <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/WebAsssembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebAsssembly</span></a> differs from the last browser VM hype cycle?</p>