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>JavaShit Glad to see the diversity of HN readers apparently includes twelve year olds. Anyway, you do realise plenty of languages have compilers with JS as a

• Dalewyn 3y ago
  >Glad to see the diversity of HN readers apparently includes twelve year olds. The abuse of JavaScript does not deserve the respect of being called by a proper name. >Anyway, you do realise plenty of languages have compilers with JS as a compilation target, right? How readable do you think that is? If you're going to run "compiled" code through an interpreter anyway, is that really compiled code?
  • mannerheim 3y ago
    >In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language).