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I'm bothered by these bits: Mr. Schlueter writes "you don’t compile it to target a given platform," as if this would be an advantage or a justification for exi
by mvzink 15y ago
I'm bothered by these bits:
Mr. Schlueter writes "you don’t compile it to target a given platform," as if this would be an advantage or a justification for existing ... when it's really quite the opposite.
I don't know when "order of magnitude difference" became a synonym for "worthwhile difference"
I didn't see Schlueter arguing either of these things, but we may have read the post differently. Both points, in my view, seemed only to illustrate that the JS-Assembly analogy is wrong, not to argue against to-JS languages.
- jashkenas 15y agoRegarding #1, you may very well be right, and I've just been reading through "language-wank" goggles. But regarding #2: https://twitter.com/#!/izs/status/114089739908415488 https://twitter.com/#!/izs/status/114089739908415488 And to be extra clear, I appreciate the post, and agree with most of it.
- mvzink 15y agoOkay, I'll give you #2 after that. And I'll point out that asking for a 10:1 difference in expressiveness from JS is, let's face it, ridiculous. (Except in specialized domain applications perhaps.)