Raffaello writes:
If I understand the proposal correctly, something similar was tried in project Lively Kernel (https://www.lively-kernel.org/), which is dead since long...
That project is alive, actually.
...and was marginally relevant perhaps only in the academic field and not at all in the real world.
As far as I know, the most Lively activity is at the Hasso-Plattner Institute, but it was also very well received at industry conference JSConf. Frank writes:
...Squeak running in a browser is already old news, thanks to [SqueakJS by] Bert Freudenberg...
Right, I mentioned it earlier in this very thread, along with WebAssembly.
I don't know about interop between that image running in the browser, and the browser itself.
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