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0 pointsbogwog6y ago0 comments

> I think people starting to pump giant binaries to the browser

As if that's not already happening today with obfuscated and minified javascript

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Those aren't technically binaries, as much as people want to cling to the metaphor of javascript as "bytecode" and pretend no distinction exists between the two.

bogwogOP6y ago

> and pretend no distinction exists between the two.

What's the distinction then? That obfuscated javascript can be looked at by people who don't know how to use a hex editor?

krapp6y ago

Javascript-as-bytecode is a metaphor, not a technical description. Javascript is not actually bytecode in the same way that a .java file is not java bytecode.

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k__6y ago

That's what I meant.

JS can do better, and it will if other languages can do things it does now.

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0 pointsbogwog6y ago0 comments

> I think people starting to pump giant binaries to the browser

As if that's not already happening today with obfuscated and minified javascript

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krapp6y ago

Those aren't technically binaries, as much as people want to cling to the metaphor of javascript as "bytecode" and pretend no distinction exists between the two.

bogwogOP6y ago

> and pretend no distinction exists between the two.

What's the distinction then? That obfuscated javascript can be looked at by people who don't know how to use a hex editor?

krapp6y ago

Javascript-as-bytecode is a metaphor, not a technical description. Javascript is not actually bytecode in the same way that a .java file is not java bytecode.

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k__6y ago

That's what I meant.

JS can do better, and it will if other languages can do things it does now.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse