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Who wrote JavaScript is web assembly in the first place?
by whadar 14y ago
Who wrote JavaScript is web assembly in the first place?
- michaelwww 14y agoI would appear to be Erik Meijer: JavaScript is an assembly language. The JavaScript + HTML generate is like a .NET assembly. The browser can execute it, but no human should really care what’s there. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageForTheWebSematicMarkupIsDeadCleanVsMachinecodedHTML.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageFo...
- whadar 14y agoOh dear... .NET assembly != assembly (x86, RISC, etc.) And NOBODY writes .NET assembly by hand. JS on the other hand is coded by so many
- rocky1138 14y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=trapezor https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=trapezor said this to me the other day when I incorrectly mentioned that Javascript was not a compiled language. I like the comparison of Javascript = C of the web versus Javascript = assembly of the web.
- whadar 14y agoYes. C is more to the point. I like to think about js more as interpreted language...