You're really torturing the analogy there, aren't you?
Rather than take it literally, let's restate the analogy to better capture the intent: If you want your language to run on an x86 processor, you should compile it to x86 assembly and if you want your language to run in the browser, you should compile it to Javascript. Simply put.
There was a time when many "alternate" languages compiled to C instead of directly to assembly (e.g. early implementations of Eiffel). If this were still the trend today, then the analogy would better be stated as "Javascript is the C of the cloud".
(as an aside, I've been saying that "Javascript is cloud assembly" since late 2008...)
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You're really torturing the analogy there, aren't you?
Rather than take it literally, let's restate the analogy to better capture the intent: If you want your language to run on an x86 processor, you should compile it to x86 assembly and if you want your language to run in the browser, you should compile it to Javascript. Simply put.
There was a time when many "alternate" languages compiled to C instead of directly to assembly (e.g. early implementations of Eiffel). If this were still the trend today, then the analogy would better be stated as "Javascript is the C of the cloud".
(as an aside, I've been saying that "Javascript is cloud assembly" since late 2008...)