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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by w1ntermute on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:23AM (#6467946)
> V8 is actually much faster than Ruby or Python

Actually, they are compiling to Lua bytecode in this case.

> JS syntax is quite good for I/O

And you can pass around blocks in Ruby.

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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by aaronem on Monday September 30, 2013 @05:50PM (#6472623)
And you can't in Javascript? Sure, the syntax is a little clunky, but the semantics are precisely the same.
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