awesome-wasm

>1. Why don't browsers execute (interpret?) languages other than JavaScript? I believe the general idea was that they would, because the "type" attribute in the <script> tag didn't need to be "text/javascript", but javascript happened to win because it was supported by Netscape Navigator. Microsoft had VBScript, but that was an IE only product, while both browsers supported javascript, making it the only choice for cross-browser compatible scripting (albeit with lots of irritating hacks, but then jQuery came along.) See this decent StackExchange thread here[0]. Then HTML5 deprecated the type attribute from the script tag because there really was no point anymore. Why support other languages when one language was adequate and already ubiquitous? >2. What would be involved in having a browser execute (interpret?) other languages, such as Pe

Sorry to disappoint you, but everyone is on the WebAssembly race, all plugins will be back, like it or not. https://github.com/appcypher/awesome-wasm-langs https://github.com/mbasso/awesome-wasm As for Microsoft, they just announced the Blazor project. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/02/06/blazor-ex... Thank browser developers for opening the pandora box.