On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 10:30:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/21/2012 2:13 AM, Max Samukha wrote:What Walter is wrong about is that bytecode is entirely pointless.I'll bite. What is its advantage over source code?
It is not about bytecode vs source code. It is about a common platform-independent intermediate representation for multiple languages. JS is such a representation in the browsers and it is widely used. It it entirely pointless? I am not convinced it is.
