[geeks] the virtualization project

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Nate Raymond wrote:

>> Even xfce has become hefty.  Desktop software (web browsers, file
>> browsers, etc.) has generally done an excellent job of keeping up with the
>> expanding resources of the machines on which they're intended to run.
>>
>
> Indeed.  Javascript is now at the point where you can run machine emulators
> written in nothing but Javascript.

I suspect it's been there for a long while, provided that you had enough
memory allocated to the interpreter.  Javascript's a pretty nifty
language, even if it has problematic scoping rules.

If there was a missing piece that's come into place lately, it's probably
the canvas element.  Doing 2D graphics in Javascript has always been
difficult; either you needed primitives stored as image files or you got
to do really perverse things with element borders.

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