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by louischatriot 4638 days ago
So many negative comments so let's say it loudly: this freaking rocks. Massive kudos to the team.

Maybe the performance is not yet on par with C. Maybe it will never be. But using JS means we can use this for very rapid prototyping and move on to C when we do need the performance.

The people complaining about performance are the same ones who build very fast and scalable products that nobody uses.

And about JS, let's remember there are two types of programming languages: the ones which everyone complains about, and the ones nobody uses.