I think that most people missed the point here. The basic idea is a DSL that "happens" to have the same syntax than Javascript. I guess that this VM has a lot

I think that most people missed the point here. The basic idea is a DSL that "happens" to have the same syntax than Javascript. I guess that this VM has a lot of optimisations related to its purpose toward nginx (.e.g. no GC overhead, since each JS context is supposed to be short lived and tied to a unique request).