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Re:Moonshine – A lightweight Lua VM for the browser by herokusaki on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @07:40PM (#7512565)
Honest question: why is it a slap in the face to developers?
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Re:Moonshine – A lightweight Lua VM for the browser by rubiquity on Sunday April 06, 2014 @11:52AM (#7541330)
Because we could then have a virtual machine that we could send bytecode to, instead of having all of these languages that compile to JavaScript, which eventually gets compiled to native code by V8.
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