Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Mon May 27 22:13:00 CDT 2013
Bad analogy. If anything, JavaScript is the C of the Internet. If you do it right, it can be processor/architecture independent and it has standardised across the various platforms. You don't really find many languages that compile down to plain C (which is then compiled again and executed), simply because that is inefficient, but their compilers are all built in C. At the end of the day, the assembly level is handled by the JavaScript engine (ie. V8) and the only reason these higher level languages, such as CoffeeScript and GWT only compile down to JavaScript is because there's a historically imposed barrier between the browser scripting engine and JavaScript. You can't go lower than that (for security reason, I'm pretty sure). If it wasn't for that, they probably would. Asm is being thrown around just to hype things in my opinion, to be honest. Best regards, Hans-Christian Andersen On 27 May 2013, at 19:31, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi All: > > JavaScript is the assembly language of the web. If not what is. > > http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsWebAssemblyLanguageAndThatsOK.aspx > > Jim > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com