[zaguios]

Uh, are we living in the same world? Javascript completely and fully dominates the web, he couldn't have been more wrong about how the future would turn out.

[kaelinl]

Have you watched the talk or only read the title? The "death" in the title does not mean what you suggest it does.

[NortySpock]

To summarize the talk for those in a hurry: the presenter, pretending to be from the future, describes YavaScript as an archaic computer language that served as a bootstrap to WASM, which is now the default compilation target for nearly all languages.

[recursive]

> Javascript completely and fully dominates the web, he couldn't have been more wrong about how the future would turn out.

So what was he wrong about?

[ehnto]

I guess just that asm.js nor WASM are the reason why Javascript still dominates. Most of the dominating technologies transpile to plain ol' javascript.

[slowmovintarget]

To refer merely to the title of another of his talks: "Wat?"