Re: DAWs .... rendering a physically modelled synthetic orchestra, let's say, 50 players, would probably tax even my current Threadripper system. It has a cooling system the size of ... let's be polite and say two very large coffee mugs.
Remind me again how you're going to do this on something other than "the desktop"?
Oh, and don't think about offloading it to the cloud. It's going to be on the order of 100GB of data when finished.
Oh, and did I mention that in 2020, I'm going to be conducting this thing in realtime (or some ML-based agent will be) ...
My guess is either one of two scenarios, possibly both:
1. WASM develops into a security model that's much closer to native hardware, more like a container that's shipped with a browser. It's probably more accurate to say that your desktop might still be important in this model, but from a user perspective, the app will "live" inside your browser.
2. Apps become more like consoles that stream the output of what you're running rather than the entirety of your data. The computing will happen on cloud-compute, but you could interact with the final product in your browser. Similar to Stadia.
Remind me again how you're going to do this on something other than "the desktop"?
Oh, and don't think about offloading it to the cloud. It's going to be on the order of 100GB of data when finished.
Oh, and did I mention that in 2020, I'm going to be conducting this thing in realtime (or some ML-based agent will be) ...