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> "Basically, it’s used everywhere that C is used and then some." It's the other way around. Every JavaScript program is run by a C/C++ program.
by dblotsky 9y ago
> "Basically, it’s used everywhere that C is used and then some."
It's the other way around. Every JavaScript program is run by a C/C++ program.
- quietbritishjim 9y agoBut if you consider browsers to be a "platform", which I think they are in fairness, then the GP comment could still apply. Whether the browser is written in C is pretty irrelevant to whether it can host it.
- dblotsky 9y agoI conjecture that an upper-level "platform" that's on top of a lower-level "platform", for some definition of "platform", will be less varied and fragmented than the lower-level one.