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Re:Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo by ahoge on Thursday May 02, 2013 @05:47PM (#5647394)
>[Google has] kind of abbonned JS in favor of Dart

Where did you get that idea? Just look at these graphs:

http://www.dartlang.org/performance/

Apparently, they are still trying to make V8 faster. V8's graph isn't flat and there are also very recent bumps.

>As oppossed to supporting asm.js

Asm.js is about JavaScript the compiler target, not JavaScript itself. Using asm.js means writing code in C/C++ (or something similar), which means it's more comparable to PNaCl than Dart.

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Re:Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo by satori99 on Thursday May 02, 2013 @07:44PM (#5647978)
While generally that is true about asm.js, there is nothing stopping anyone from writing asm.js code by hand.

It is still just javascript and totally readable as such.

For example: https://gist.github.com/calvinmetcalf/5473022

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