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Re:Moonshine – A lightweight Lua VM for the browser by ben0x539 on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @09:30AM (#7507960)
I think the point of contention is that there isn't really such a thing as a completely language-neutral bytecode, so nobody can agree on whose language-specific-js-replacement vm to ship.
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Re:Moonshine – A lightweight Lua VM for the browser by stormbrew on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @03:12PM (#7510918)
If JS ever gets finalizers we could probably consider the total feature set JS has at that point sufficient for the implementation of most other dynamic languages without resorting to writing a VM in js or using asm.js to embed a full C runtime using arraymaps for a heap.

At that point we'd probably see some subset of JS devolve to a bytecode, I'll bet.

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