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0 pointstlrobinson12y ago0 comments

1. That's missing the point, but since you asked, Emscripten and Native Client.

2. I disagree that CS's user experience is only "very slightly" better, but that's very subjective.

Tooling is a somewhat valid complaint but it's a young platform and it's improving (source maps, etc).

Semantics aren't quite identical (scoping, implicit return values, "fat arrow" functions).

How does CS have more dependencies than any other compiled language? The only dependency is a compiler.

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masklinn12y ago

> 1. That's missing the point, but since you asked, Emscripten

Has LLVM grown an assembly frontend? Emscripten is more or less an LLVM backend.

> and Native Client.

These are no more web applications than writing firefox extensions at this point.

> Semantics aren't quite identical (scoping, implicit return values, fat arrow functions).

For the most part, this is minimal syntactic sugar, not significantly different semantics.

> How does CS have more dependencies than any other compiled language?

It does not, the point is that javascript has no dependency, and that if you're going to add a compiler dependency you might as well go for real changes.

tlrobinsonOP12y ago

> Has LLVM grown an assembly frontend? Emscripten is more or less an LLVM backend.

I don't know, probably, but LLVM's IF is essentially machine independent assembly anyway.

But again, missing the point.

argonaut12y ago

Look, I think masklinn very clearly got your point. It just happens that your point was expressed in an unconstructive fashion, and then you keep (again, unconstructively) repeating "you don't get the point" without following up with a clearer explanation of what your point is (notwithstanding that I think we all understand your point).

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