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qwerta on Oct 29, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: For modern development Javascript indeed is a shit...

As someone who maintains old 1000+ KLOC projects I have to agree. Have look at some large old Perl projects to see how JS code will look&feel in 10 years.

But on other side I see JS bytecode as great alternative to Java and JVM. Modern languages usually include JS as compilation back-end.

dpratt on Oct 29, 2013 [–]

>But on other side I see JS bytecode as great alternative to Java and JVM.

Exactly how is javascript a better byte code than JVM byte code?

qwerta on Oct 29, 2013 | [–]

Obviously install base is huge.

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