[Yorrrick]

It's simple. "Bytecode" is just a kind if encoding. The only thing it does is make programs marginally smaller and marginally quicker to decode. It's not enough to justify enormous switching costs. Let's talk about what functionality this new thing should have. That's where the high-value opportunities are. But, it's also where there's no easy consensus.

[stcredzero]

Hence, there are high value opportunities in JS as a compilation target/runtime platform.

[duaneb]

You know what's a perfect, concise byte code? An ast-laden ASCII blob. What's the byte code for a byte array again? Oh there isn't one.... What's the byte code for a compare and swap? Shit....