This whole thing is weird (and stupid). I listened to the Hanselman interview with the guy who started pushing the concept of JS as Assembly. He came across t

This whole thing is weird (and stupid). I listened to the Hanselman interview with the guy who started pushing the concept of JS as Assembly. He came across to me as being really confused. He seems to conflate the concept of a .Net assembly, with "assembly language". I got the impression he had never written anything in assembly language, and didn't understand that it's a minimal mnemonics + macro layer over actual byte code, not something highly portable, and not something that "assembles" components together. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageForTheWebSematicMarkupIsDeadCleanVsMachinecodedHTML.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageFo... JavaScript is the new universal web glue language. This is great, as is the fact that people are developing better-abstracted languages which compile to JS. But it's not any sort of "assembly language" unless you employ really confused semantics. I take issue with this for precisely the same reason that I take issue with using "Cloud" interchangeably with "Internet" or "Website".