Technically speaking the article is correct: "JS is the assembly of the web" can seem misleading if one means assembly as "machine-specific code". But "JS is t

Technically speaking the article is correct: "JS is the assembly of the web" can seem misleading if one means assembly as "machine-specific code". But "JS is the assembly of the web" is correct in the sense it is normally meant, which is "a language that you can compile into as opposed to writing directly for." We are seeing that today, as the list of languages compiling into JS grows, and begins to resemble the list of languages compiled into assembly. Whereas the list of languages that compile into say C is much smaller. So it is still a fair statement to call JS "the assembly of the web", at least as long as we understand what we mean by that.