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Re:Opal - Ruby to Javascript compiler by MatthewPhillips on Friday October 19, 2012 @03:37PM (#4675080)
? Doesn't this show that we aren't stuck with the same hammer? Opal is a different hammer.
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Re:Opal - Ruby to Javascript compiler by rrouse on Friday October 19, 2012 @04:33PM (#4675282)
Not really. You're still using Javascript in the end.
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Re:Opal - Ruby to Javascript compiler by ville on Friday October 19, 2012 @07:56PM (#4675856)
How is that a bad thing? Source code VMs are easier to secure and as the tooling improves, you don't need to look a the generated JS anymore to debug, it becomes "byte code".
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