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>things my browser can execute with highly optimized machine code ...this includes JS - every browser includes an engine that does exactly this, in fact. It’s
by rnicholus 7y ago
>things my browser can execute with highly optimized machine code
...this includes JS - every browser includes an engine that does exactly this, in fact.
It’s this lack of understanding of how the language and browsers function that makes these tired arguments particularly infuriating.
- papermachete 7y agoMy browser contains an engine that transpiles and optimises arbitrary javascript to run faster than native APIs?
- rnicholus 7y ago>faster than native apis Of course not. Neither said by me, or your post I quoted. HTML and CSS aren’t any more “native apis” then the JS implementation of the w3c spec anyway either.