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Extreme portability is often worth 10x slowdown.

• kombine 14y ago
  It sure may be, but JavaScript can't be "extremely" more portable than, say, C++, since all JavaScript engines with majority market share to date are implemented in C++. Also its portability is not an inherent property of JS, it is because of the history.
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