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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by workinthehead on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:17AM (#17303254)
Thank you for illustrating my point. All of the dynamic languages made different decisions on how to handle type conflicts, there simply is no right or wrong answer.

Oh, and JavaScript is single-threaded. It's impossible to share resources in a single process.

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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by pdpi on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:33AM (#17303422)
> Oh, and JavaScript is single-threaded. It's impossible to share resources in a single process.

DBs, files, etc etc. in-process memory isn't the only resource you're sharing.

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