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by pufuwozu 4981 days ago
As a creator of an "altJS" language, I've been thinking about this for a long time. I wanted a VM in the browser for years and was a huge fan of Silverlight/Moonlight but I recently changed my mind.

Higher level languages are easier to optimise for. Creating a bytecode would also mean another backwards compatibility hell and another format is not as general as people would like.