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> I think people starting to pump giant binaries to the browser As if that's not already happening today with obfuscated and minified javascript

• krapp 7y ago
  Those aren't technically binaries, as much as people want to cling to the metaphor of javascript as "bytecode" and pretend no distinction exists between the two.
  • bogwog 7y ago
    > and pretend no distinction exists between the two. What's the distinction then? That obfuscated javascript can be looked at by people who don't know how to use a hex editor?
    • krapp 7y ago
      Javascript-as-bytecode is a metaphor, not a technical description. Javascript is not actually bytecode in the same way that a .java file is not java bytecode.
      • bogwog 7y ago
        Okay. Thanks for that.
• k__ 7y ago
  That's what I meant. JS can do better, and it will if other languages can do things it does now.