Predicting the Future of the Web
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Predicts concrete outcomes: TypeScript takeover — by end of 2020 most new commercial greenfield projects choose TypeScript and by 2025 more developers write TypeScript daily than plain JavaScript; WebAssembly expands web apps by ~20% as heavyweight native apps (games, graphics editors) ship in the browser; NPM survives network effects but triggers at least one security incident by 2020 and a widespread package virus by 2025; compiled-to-JS alternatives like Elm and ReasonML age well and keep small but loyal ecosystems; running "npm config set ignores scripts true" blocks postinstall script risk.
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