The Web Should Become a VM (opens in new tab)

I increasingly feel that browsers are carrying too much historical baggage. Today every browser ships gigantic subsystems: a JavaScript engine an HTML parser a CSS engine a DOM engine a rendering engine layout systems style systems compatibility layers for decades of legacy behavior Modern browser engines are among the most complicated software projects humanity has ever built. And yet when I look at where the web is actually going, I see something different emerging. I think the future web s...