[bjpirt]

Alternative takeaway: Javascript is so widely deployed that most languages have found a way to compile to it

[bamboo_7]

Alternativev (joke) takeaway: Javascript is as important to computers as machine code

[bcaa7f3a8bbc]

Alternative non-joke: JavaScript is important to the web, just like machine code is important to computers. Actually, many believed JavaScript was the assembly of the web (just attempt to read the minimized scripts running in your browser), until WebAssembly...

* https://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageF...