the web has become the most resilient, portable, future-proof computing platform we’ve ever created

let's keep a universally understood specificcompiler reference language so that all of us, no matter whatour computer, can share what work we have done

lack of a common powerful hi-level language available on every computer remains. You still cannot write a script file and send it to everyone and expect them to be able to run it without installing something first. The closest we probably have is HTML with JS embedded, since everyone has an HTML browser installed