I love the correlation between modern in-browser development and programming early personal computers. It&#x27;s akin to how digital logic abstracts away the tyranny of E&amp;M physics, but several layers higher, and this time just between instruction sets&#x2F;runtimes.<p>ChromeOS is <i>kind</i> of making this leap, but I really wonder when web browser ASICs (or equivalent) will start popping up.