That takes out Microsoft and Google from that list. Also, ‘whomever’ already had its opportunity with Java.
So one could conclude the wait is for Apple with Swift. But would they want that? I think they would rather see people write iOS-specific apps in Swift.
Of course there may be another 'whomever'. Facebook with Hack, perhaps? Their advantage may be that they aren’t big in hardware or operating systems, but I still think they are too big and therefore deemed too dangerous by the likes of Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
I think the only way is for some small player to come out of nowhere and somehow take the world by storm, probably, as you say, by riding on top of WebAssembly.
(by the way, I don’t think WebAssembly will be the leveller that allows everybody to pick his own language to develop in for the web. I think we will see some high-level API in WebAssembly develop that fits one language better than others. Of course, we could again choose to make “C” that language and that way allow almost any language interface with any other language through a crude interface, but I would hope we can do better by now)
So one could conclude the wait is for Apple with Swift. But would they want that? I think they would rather see people write iOS-specific apps in Swift.
Of course there may be another 'whomever'. Facebook with Hack, perhaps? Their advantage may be that they aren’t big in hardware or operating systems, but I still think they are too big and therefore deemed too dangerous by the likes of Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
I think the only way is for some small player to come out of nowhere and somehow take the world by storm, probably, as you say, by riding on top of WebAssembly.
(by the way, I don’t think WebAssembly will be the leveller that allows everybody to pick his own language to develop in for the web. I think we will see some high-level API in WebAssembly develop that fits one language better than others. Of course, we could again choose to make “C” that language and that way allow almost any language interface with any other language through a crude interface, but I would hope we can do better by now)