The Year of JavaScript on the Desktop

https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19252437 ( Universal Binaries Using WASM )
Tl;dr A runtime for running wasm binaries without a browser. This will be the next Node.js. Written in Rust.

A jit-compiled bytecode-based virtual machine boasting cross-platform compatibility? Wow, that's genius, nobody's tried that before!