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sultezdukes on Feb 19, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Asm.js: a strict subset of js for compilers – work...

Would you be happier if COBOL was the lingua-franca of the web?

No dig on Javascript (always had a soft-spot for prototypes), but at the end of the day we have different languages for a reason.

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