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Its not "built for speed". Its build for speed and for the browser.

• thetrendycyborg 15y ago
  and for node. And it's almost as fast as a C implementation. JS isn't terrible, you know. People just never learn it because it's confusing. It's more similar to lisp than to C, except for the syntax. And built for speed doesn't mean "the fastest." It just means within this implementation the goal was speed.