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Re:Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS S... by aclevernickname on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @04:21AM (#5976458)
That's right, move them goalposts [1]. Thanks for the reply, always a fan of your comments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts

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Re:Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS S... by PommeDeTerre on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @07:42AM (#5977118)
The "goalposts" haven't "moved".

Asm.js is still just JavaScript. Emscripten isn't currently production-grade software, and it still just compiles down to JavaScript.

I hope you understand that either of those options is still a case of using JavaScript. Are you seriously disputing that?

We can develop production-grade applications using Java, C, C++, C# and JavaScript for Android. We can only do a very small fraction of that when using Firefox OS. Firefox OS clearly provides far fewer viable options than Android does.

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Re:Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS S... by aclevernickname on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @03:56PM (#5980343)
>The "goalposts" haven't "moved".

>Emscripten isn't currently production-grade software, and it still just compiles down to JavaScript.

took you two sentences to contradict yourself and move the goalposts again. Nowhere were we talking about "production grade".

> I hope you understand that either of those options is still a case of using JavaScript. Are you seriously disputing that?

That's a strawman fallacy. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

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