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How about Ruby or Python?

• shmerl 13y ago
  Or Rust for example.
• TinyBig 13y ago
  There is already a strong effort in Ruby land - check out http://artoo.io/ http://artoo.io/. Artoo was developed with robotics in mind but it is not limited to that domain.
• ssafejava 13y ago
  You could - but V8 is actually much faster than Ruby or Python, and JS syntax is quite good for I/O. Better than that, a ton of people know JS and the more developers find this accessible, the better.
  • w1ntermute 13y ago
    > V8 is actually much faster than Ruby or Python Actually, they are compiling to Lua bytecode in this case. > JS syntax is quite good for I/O And you can pass around blocks in Ruby.
    • aaronem 13y ago
      And you can't in Javascript? Sure, the syntax is a little clunky, but the semantics are precisely the same.