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by nwmcsween 5260 days ago
The argument in the article is true but this applies to any AOT language not just actionscript. A look at two popular 'alternatives' are native client and a vm in this instance serve two separate issues: sandboxing and standardization / interoperability. The issue with the latter is standardizing a bytecode would be complicated and a candidate could possibly be the parrot vm.