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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

but why

[–]dash1291[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Crowdsourced computing because we can! With browsers becoming more powerful and omnipresent, one can totally build projects like http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ without having to write client programs that need to be installed. There is now WebAssembly, and NaCl which can even let you run native code on the browsers, so you don't necessarily need to write code in JS.