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I'm not familiar with the older examples, but only feature phones from the first list are as tightly coupled as Web is with JavaScript. On all others platforms

I'm not familiar with the older examples, but only feature phones from the first list are as tightly coupled as Web is with JavaScript. On all others platforms you can either run native code, or code compiled for the platform's default VM, or both.

pjmlp 9y ago
Then by that way of thinking the Web is not tightly coupled with JavaScript, because you can use JavaScript as a target language on a compiler backend. The alternatives to the languages I listed, don't enjoy the same support to 100% of plaform APIs, and respective SDK tooling. Going outside the eco-system means manually writting FFI bindings, not being able to use the GUI designers if available, lack of debugging and profiling support at the same level as the platform tools.