The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]
I guess I don't really get the point here. This video walks a line between comedy and fact where I'm not really satisfied in either.<p>I can't always tell what's a joke, does he actually believe people would write software to compile to ASM instead of javascript because there are a few WTFs on js's "hashmaps." Much likely a newer version will come out before 2035? Or was that a joke?<p>I also feel like poking fun at "yavascript" at a python conference is cheap and plays to an audience's basest desires.<p>Really I see a mixture of the following:
 - Predictions about the future, some of which are just cleary jokes (e.g. 5 year war)
 - Insulting javascript preferring clojure
 - Talking about weird shit you could, but never would do with ASM js
 - Talking about a library that allegedly runs native code 4% faster in some benchmarks, with a simplistic explanation about overhead from ring0 to ring3 overhead.