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Re:JavaScript is Not Web Assembly by jashkenas on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @07:38PM (#2998288)
Regarding #1, you may very well be right, and I've just been reading through "language-wank" goggles. But regarding #2:

https://twitter.com/#!/izs/status/114089739908415488

And to be extra clear, I appreciate the post, and agree with most of it.

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Re:JavaScript is Not Web Assembly by mvzink on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @11:07PM (#2998755)
Okay, I'll give you #2 after that. And I'll point out that asking for a 10:1 difference in expressiveness from JS is, let's face it, ridiculous. (Except in specialized domain applications perhaps.)
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