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by jeswin 5038 days ago
- Translating a statically-typed Object Oriented language to JS wouldn't produce hugely different (/horrific) code. From inheritance to lambdas, there are comparable features available in JS. Going from JS to C# might be harder though.

- It might be simpler to write JS, but I can imagine people wanting to see if type-safety has benefits.
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erik-kallen 5038 days ago
That's right, it doesn't get horrific until you use goto or yield (which don't exist in Javascript so they have to be emulated).
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TazeTSchnitzel 5038 days ago
Some browsers, and ES Harmony, have yield. You could add a compiler switch to use native support, although only Firefox seems to support this just now.

Curious to see how you managed the emulation - splitting up a function? Web workers? :)

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erik-kallen 5038 days ago
for (;;), continue and switch.
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