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by bkanber 5029 days ago
These articles are not about developing video games or getting performance. They're about learning physics through a common language that most developers know: Javascript. It's ok that it won't beat flash or native client. It never intended to.

If you can read an article, understand what's going on and immediately open up Firebug and start playing with the equations, then Javascript has cut out 10 unnecessary steps (buying Flash, installing, learning actionscript, etc) or your path to playing with physics and numerical models!