I agree WASM doesn't bring in anything fundamental to this picture that isn't already there with JS. But that is no comfort.
In the ancient web world, the site author wrote HTML to describe the data she wanted presented and the browser took care of making it accessible. But authors (especially companies) wanted detailed control of how their sites looked, so they turned to flash etc.
JS has long been re-playing this trend in slow motion -- moving away from web pages being interactive documents presented by the GUI app called browser and towards them being stand-alone GUIs like in flash.
I think they are doing this with temporary loans. Our Maritime Museum in Sydney had a very good exhibition about the destruction of Pompeii. All the stuff there was on loan from some a couple maritime museums in Italy.
> While legacy code is most troublesome, it still will be at maximum only twice as bad resource-wise, than new and pretty code.
This reflects an assumption -- perhaps one nurtured by engineers -- that paying down technical debt is about writing new shiny code.
But in my experience, new code is where most technical debt accrues. True technical debt reduction usually involves improving the behaviour of old code. It might also involve cleaning up that code; but mostly it's about cleaning up the workings of the running system.
> _immediately move money to a bank account or you are dead_
So the "bank account" you are refering to is (or is a practically automatic gateway too) one of those "more stable financial assets" you mention above.
The fact that the banks can be trusted to do that is a sign of some kind of orderliness. I wonder if such an option exists in Venezuela right now.
Oh, for sure. Inflation was the result of the government failing to manage its debt. Institutions, businesses and the law still existed. Even the mechanisms for coping with hyperinflation were market innovations (like incredibly fast banking in a gigantic third world country in the 80s, or the financial instruments backing savings accounts). I'm not sure that Venezuela has any of that at the moment.
> but the people speaking the different dialects don't want to change to the new version. Makes sense that these small Alpine valley cultures want to speak the language their ancestors have evolved over the millennia, not some newfangled mashup.
Well heck, the same thing can almost be said of German.
Of course I suppose if a fish did the same thing we might have a foundering flounder.