JavaScript Containers
The more we can remove unnecessary abstractions, the closer we can get to the concept of "The Network Is the Computer". Cloudflare Workers is essentially an implementation of this concept in the Cloudflare network. Deno Deploy is a new implementation of this idea (on the GCP network).
Universal Scripting Language
scripting languages are useful, but they’re all pretty much the same, of them JavaScript is by far more wildly used and future proof. Thus it makes sense to think of JavaScript as the universal scripting language.
JavaScript takes the place of Shell
In this emerging server abstraction layer, JavaScript takes the place of Shell. It is quite a bit better suited to scripting than Bash or Zsh. Instead of invoking Linux executables, like shell does, the JavaScript sandbox can invoke Wasm.
The fundamental mistake of Node.js was diverging from the browser as new APIs were standardized, inventing too much.