Skip to content

Comment on JS is Assembly Language for the Web: Brendan Eich, Crockford, & others commentparent

Comments

What do you mean? I think you might be missing the point. ECMAScript 3 is almost universally supported to the letter and will continue to be for the forseeable future, just like modern x86 processors are backwards compatible with the ABI from decades ago, and hence is a rock-solid foundation for projects like GWT that compile to it.

ES3 has become the universally compatible "write once, run anywhere" bytecode VM that Java promised to be.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.