> and you can get architecture independence for free And you target JavaScript for precisely the same reason :) Perhaps the better way to say it is this: C is

> and you can get architecture independence for free And you target JavaScript for precisely the same reason :) Perhaps the better way to say it is this: C is a language which was once written by hand, but which is increasingly being used as a target for higher-level languages. The same thing is happening to JS, but at least to me "JavaScript is the new C" is not a particularly useful way to express that similarity.