On 2014-05-13 1:30 PM, Nicolas F. wrote:
The only good idea that I see in this is that it allows you to do client-side web-development without having to use J
I do believe it would allow some web frameworks and UI projects to run faster by reducing the massive use of fallback scopes and HashMaps. Also, nothing says a thread pool won't be in the works if it becomes necessary. JS has the advantage of running in every single web browsers out there regardless of the OS, and for platforms like the Chrome OS that only run JS/HTML, it's also going to be an important tool.
Don't get me wrong, I do believe javascript is a horrible technology and I hate how it managed to get there by stacking indirections so much, but it's also what browsers rely on and this is supposed to improve it.
