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Re:Jaspy – A Python VM written in JavaScript by 9912831 on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:21PM (#11511881)
I suspect functional programming. I don't like Javascript, but getting away from the typical OO garbage is a plus.

Of course I'd prefer Haskell, but if one can earn money with JS...

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Re:Jaspy – A Python VM written in JavaScript by xaduha on Saturday April 16, 2016 @03:43PM (#11511950)
JS engines in browsers should evolve to more general VMs, for which you can implement/port other languages. Hopefully WebAssembly is a start of that. That is the proper way, not writing it in JS with caveats such as

> Speed is explicitly not a main goal of this project.

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Re:Jaspy – A Python VM written in JavaScript by koehlma on Saturday April 16, 2016 @04:22PM (#11512109)
I totally agree with that. Actually that's the reason why speed is not a main goal and it is more about the style of programming and exploring new ways. The long term goal is to use new upcoming technologies to implement it in a faster way although.
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