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Re:LLVM.js: LLVM Itself Compiled to JavaScript via Emscripten by tlrobinson on Thursday January 03, 2013 @01:34PM (#5003768)
Emscripten lets you compile basically anything to JavaScript (including itself, apparently), so Atwood's Law is really equivalent to saying JavaScript is Turing complete.

See also: jslinux (http://bellard.org/jslinux/)

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Re:LLVM.js: LLVM Itself Compiled to JavaScript via Emscripten by timcameronryan on Thursday January 03, 2013 @01:38PM (#5003790)
Makes me excited for a forthcoming Emscripten => Brainfuck compiler.
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