[masklinn]

> 1. That's missing the point, but since you asked, Emscripten

Has LLVM grown an assembly frontend? Emscripten is more or less an LLVM backend.

> and Native Client.

These are no more web applications than writing firefox extensions at this point.

> Semantics aren't quite identical (scoping, implicit return values, fat arrow functions).

For the most part, this is minimal syntactic sugar, not significantly different semantics.

> How does CS have more dependencies than any other compiled language?

It does not, the point is that javascript has no dependency, and that if you're going to add a compiler dependency you might as well go for real changes.

[tlrobinson]

> Has LLVM grown an assembly frontend? Emscripten is more or less an LLVM backend.

I don't know, probably, but LLVM's IF is essentially machine independent assembly anyway.

But again, missing the point.