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		pan69 on March 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JavaScript is Not Web Assembly I'm sure that in the late 70's or early 80's people said the same thing about assembly language and guess what, even today there are still people programming in assembly. The point is that languages change faster than the platforms they run on. Why else would there be CoffeeScript or Haxe? It's just a natural evolution. To us Javascript might seem perfectly acceptable as a programming language but only time will tell if the next generation of programmers will feel the same about that.

fusiongyro on April 1, 2013 [–]

Yes, but they also said that about SQL, starting in the 90s.

The more high-level the thing you're trying to hide is, the more likely it'll keep peeking out from underneath your abstraction layer.

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