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This better not awaken anything in me

They are a common wedding gift in some rural communities.

But I don’t have one yet.

But that was something that had to be installed on the system

That was only initially true, by the end of its life it was a default component in some major browsers. Such as chrome and internet explorer.

And prior to that it frequently came preinstalled by the manufacturer.

But with all that said, I suspect we’ve missed the intent of the previous comment. To illustrate that none of the alternative means to run code in a web browser has worked out.

And with that said due to market momentum (like how so many apps are electron based) I would expect JavaScript to outlive C++ haha.

Any particular reason it needs to be XP?

Last time I checked there was over 40 open exploits that are fairly easy to trigger. (Mostly related to web browsing or gpu acceleration)

I’d imagine something like Debian or Alpine would run on it?