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So why JavaScript for the assembler? Was it familiarity with the language, did the dynamic nature of the language help out...?

• icefox 12y ago
  Some options include: He is familiar with it, the Z80 is so simple it doesn't really matter, and someone else already wrote one in JavaScript. Lastly does it matter?
  • ralphc 12y ago
    All those are valid, I was just wondering if the dynamic nature of JavaScript, adding properties to objects at will etc. made writing an assembler easier.
• BonsaiDen 12y ago
  I'm a full stack Web Developer at daytime and I'd argue that I probably do speak JavaScript more fluently than I do English. So for me it really was a no brainer. The custom conversion tools needed for the graphics / map / sounds are also written in JS, so it's a bonus to have good interop with those too. In addition to that, getting the compiler up to speed (takes < 90ms on my old core i5) was a nice exercise in getting more familiar with v8's performance analysis tools :)
  • grrowl 12y ago
    > probably do speak JavaScript more fluently than I do English Ah, a feeling many of us know too well.