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V8 dev: asm.js populism is the worst thing that happened to JavaScript in years
- niggler 14y agoFor me, the most impressive part of the asm.js demos isn't asm.js but rather emscripten.
- macspoofing 14y agoThey go hand-in-hand. But yes, emscripten is an impressive project.
- niggler 14y agoEmscripten has existed for a long time and works incredibly well even without asm.js.
- mraleph 14y agoI would like to note that I don't work on V8 full time anymore and all opinions that I express on twitter are mine alone and not those of employer, my current or former team. I am writing a blog post that condenses my feeling towards asm.js into something tangible. I also would like to add that it still excites me much to see JavaScript to become faster and faster and that I anticipate real world JavaScript written by human hands to become faster in the future and I don't think we need AOT compilation shortcuts for that.