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Re:JavaScript at 20 by anon1385 on Saturday May 16, 2015 @06:39AM (#9555654)
>> Or, they could take their own medicine, and try and write the browser in JS. >You mean like Firefox?

This is a very strange comment, especially coming from you.

Everybody knows that the bulk of Firefox is not written in JS. You personally have spent years of your life working on a new programming language precisely because JS is not suitable for writing a web browser.

I'll take your position on JS seriously when you abandon Rust and begin writing the bulk of Firefox in JS.

Re:JavaScript at 20 by pcwalton on Saturday May 16, 2015 @11:50AM (#9556513)
It would actually be a very interesting experiment to try running Servo Emscriptenified (with SharedArrayBuffer, of course). I wouldn't want to write a browser in the full JS language, but that's precisely what asm.js is for.

"You should abandon Rust and write in JS" presupposes exactly the kind of strawman I've been arguing against. You don't have to abandon your favorite language!