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by fluffyduffy 4543 days ago
It really never ceases to amaze me the things you can do in JavaSCript. That's the kind of thing that up until a few years ago you'd be hesitant to do in Java. This is really cool stuff! I look forward to when we get full powered PC games done in JS. We're not there yet, I know - but it's little steps like this that'll get us there.
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There's nothing particularly hard about this, or special about javascript though. This is the kind of stuff you could've implemented back in the day and ran on a Pentium MMX. It's about having an efficient algorithm.
I agree, the speeds you can achieve with JavaScript are astounding. They are far superior to Python, it's a shame JS doesn't have that well of a support for scientific calculations.
If anyone could list what support there is that'd be really interesting.
Just a side note: Java used to be slow, but is actually a lot lot faster now. So while javascript is certainly impressively fast, Java is actually even faster still.
Although I believe this is true, I've used more fluid interfaces and played/have seen better performing demos/games in Javascript rather than Java.