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"create a standard for a VM that other languages can compile bytecode to. Create an API in this VM for graphics, video, audio."

There already is a standard VM with an API for graphics, video and audio - it's called HTML5, and, as a bonus, it also includes an API for text layout. Sure, if you sat down intending to design such a VM, you might not come up with HTML5, but so what; what concrete improvement would you get by distributing programs as bytecode rather than JavaScript?




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