A uniform language and ecosystem has been the siren song of JS for over a decade and I've yet to see it work out in any meaningful way.

Use whatever you like.

I mean, what else do you use to run things in the browser?

Pouchdb. Hypercore (pear). It’s nice to be able to spin up JS versions of things and have them “just work” in the most widely deployed platform in the world.

TensorflowJS was awesome for years, with things like blazeface, readyplayer me avatars and hallway tile and other models working in realtime at the edge. Before chatgpt was even conceived. What’s your solution, transpile Go into wasm?

Agents can work in people’s browsers as well as node.js around the world. Being inside a browser gives a great sandbox, and it’s private on the person’s own machine too.

This was possible years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpSzT_c7_UI&t=10m30s

> what else do you use to run things in the browser?

I do my best to run as little in the browser as possible. Everything is an order of magnitude simpler and faster to build if you do the bulk of things on a server in a language of your choice and render to the browser as necessary.

I was wondering if there was something particular about AI, but that's just the standard reason people give to use JS for anything.