+1 this makes it available to a huge audience without them needing to learn a new language and platform at the same time.
ALSO!! With WebAssembly and WebGL, the browser is continuing to become a legitimate platform. It's less and less accurate to think of JS as just an interpreted language, its APIs, optimizations, and tooling are making it a viable target for abstract machine code and even code that runs on a GPU. In that regard, this makes total sense, and as I think about it, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner!
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+1 this makes it available to a huge audience without them needing to learn a new language and platform at the same time.
ALSO!! With WebAssembly and WebGL, the browser is continuing to become a legitimate platform. It's less and less accurate to think of JS as just an interpreted language, its APIs, optimizations, and tooling are making it a viable target for abstract machine code and even code that runs on a GPU. In that regard, this makes total sense, and as I think about it, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner!