It seems that you're complaining about some perceived meaning in my comment, but I'm not sure what it was. Having written significant pieces of code in javascr

It seems that you're complaining about some perceived meaning in my comment, but I'm not sure what it was. Having written significant pieces of code in javascript over the last 13 years, I've benefitted massively from those speed increases, and while I'm aware of a number of reasons that they have occurred (including but not limited to the v8 engine - I remember reading excitedly about tamarin, tracemonkey and the like), I don't think it's silly to point out the sheer magnitude of the improvement. I'm not trying to say that JS is going to save us from Wirth's law or anything, I'm just trying to give people context on what a huge jump it has been.