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Re:JavaScript at 20 by serge2k on Friday May 15, 2015 @05:22PM (#9553760)
Your point is irrelevant, then difference then becomes the fact that at an OS level I can choose what code I compile into machine code and in the browser I can't.
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Re:JavaScript at 20 by eccenux on Saturday May 16, 2015 @03:06PM (#9557230)
No, for OS you decide which compilator to choose. As is with browsers. There are several languages (e.g. TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Dart) which can be compiled to JS.

That is not what I personally like (the processes of compilation and deployment I mean), but if you develop for OS then you have to compile before you run... In most OS.

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Re:JavaScript at 20 by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday May 15, 2015 @08:20PM (#9554442)
> Your point is irrelevant, then difference then becomes the fact that at an OS level I can choose what code I compile into machine code and in the browser I can't.

Uh, what? You do have a choice in the browser. I don't understand.

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