> why would anyone write in a crippled C-like subset of javascript Because asm.js is not meant for people, but for compilers. For example the Unreal Engine ha

> why would anyone write in a crippled C-like subset of javascript Because asm.js is not meant for people, but for compilers. For example the Unreal Engine has been recently compiled from C/C++ to asm.js and is running in the browser: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/ http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/