"Richard Kettlewell"  wrote

| Secondly the legitimate API surface available to JavaScript keeps on
| growing. It still can't do everything, but the gap keeps shrinking.
|
| Finally as more functionality moves to web applications, the less the
| distinction matters. For example the fact that JavaScript can't access
| your local files isn't very relevant if the stuff you care about is in
| Google Docs.
|

    Yes. And now there's WebAssembly. It's clear
that Google and others hope to turn everyone's
computer into a kiosk interface to access web
services. To a great extent, cellphones are
already that.

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