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4 players (edge, firefox, safari and chrome, and no the last 2 are no longer close). One of them, the usual suspect, is still dog slow to update.

But even with that, wasm, service workers and other major changes don't come overnight. The rest of us still have a job to do.



I mean you're not wrong. If any major player added an existing mature language to the browser with 1st class support you would see the end of new JS.

Bonus points if it was a lisp or a 'hard' language because machismo alone would drive adoption overnight.




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