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Re:CSS Purge by gkya on Friday May 20, 2016 @07:41PM (#11742386)
There is a recent inclination among designers to write JS and take part in writing front-end code. Youtube is full of their talks.

JS/Hypertext was not initially meant for engineering anyting, so it's not analogous to a combination of UI toolkit & proper programming language & a compiler.

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Re:CSS Purge by davidjnelson on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:33PM (#11742913)
Huh. Js has certainly evolved though, I mean check out how v8 compiles down to assembly and accesses object properties directly at a fixed memory offset: http://www.developerknowhow.com/995/why-the-v8-javascript-en...
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