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by nplusone 5389 days ago
If I recall correctly, Scott Hanselman raised the Assembly analogy in a post linked from this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2783060 . While discussing the unreadable JavaScript behind Google+ and similarly large-scale sites, Erik Meijer said

"JavaScript is an assembly language. The JavaScript + HTML generated is like a .NET assembly. The browser can execute it, but no human should really care what's there."

JavaScript generated by CoffeeScript is very readable and thus does not exactly correspond to that concept of JS-as-Assembly.

edit: formatting
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juiceandjuice 5389 days ago
That's because it's optimized to hell. Programming in GWT you can turn obfuscation/optimization off and it's readable, but much larger.

Debugging with GWT hosted mode is so ridiculously easy that readability is a non-issue.

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