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mraleph on June 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dart 1.5

Isn't Shumway more of a confirmation for my concern than a counter example? Shumway is running ActionScript which is extremely close to JavaScript semantically though somewhat more strict and allows for optional typing.

azakai on June 29, 2014 [–]

It agrees on numeric types, but it has very large differences like namespaces, classes, etc. Look at how complex the Shumway VM is.

kg on June 30, 2014 | [–]

AS3 also has things like pointers (via domain memory). The closest thing to that in current JS is asm.js.

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