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How much of the web's inflexibility comes from Javascript and cross-platform JS issues, and how much of it comes from things like "Canvas is only reliable in 40% of browsers" and "HTML5 video only works reliably in Chrome and Safari"?

Because, CLI could address the former (it seems sensible to standardize a bytecode runtime rather than an entire language and its associated libraries), but probably not the latter.




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