I found this article [1] that makes the argument that JS doesn't need a bytecode format, and sorta-but-not-really comes to the conclusion that a compact AST for

I found this article [1] that makes the argument that JS doesn't need a bytecode format, and sorta-but-not-really comes to the conclusion that a compact AST format would be a better choice as an intermediate, and mentions JSZap [2] (which itself seems to be more about compression than being used as an IL). I think an AST format that v8 and other JS engines could read could be awesome. Ultimately, I'd like to have a Clojure that can compiled to this AST. On servers, the ast files could be cached a la Python .pyc files. [1] http://www.2ality.com/2012/01/bytecode-myth.html http://www.2ality.com/2012/01/bytecode-myth.html [2] http://www.slideserve.com/elina/jszap-compressing-javascript-code http://www.slideserve.com/elina/jszap-compressing-javascript...