Ugh, I just realized this whole article is a farce. v8 added UTF-16 support earlier this year. Its support for non-BMP code points is now on par with java (a

Ugh, I just realized this whole article is a farce. v8 added UTF-16 support earlier this year. Its support for non-BMP code points is now on par with java (although it has many of the same limitations)