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0 pointsazakai11y ago0 comments

Thanks! I forgot Shumway. Last I heard it was competitive with the Flash runtime (better on some stuff, worse on others), so that seems like a clear counterexample to mraleph's concern.

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mraleph11y ago

Isn't Shumway more of a confirmation for my concern than a counter example? Shumway is running ActionScript which is extremely close to JavaScript semantically though somewhat more strict and allows for optional typing.

azakaiOP11y ago

It agrees on numeric types, but it has very large differences like namespaces, classes, etc. Look at how complex the Shumway VM is.

kevingadd11y ago

AS3 also has things like pointers (via domain memory). The closest thing to that in current JS is asm.js.

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