Nov 2 · 1 min read
I’ve come to appreciate JavaScript (typically with the help of TypeScript’s type annotation) as a modern language that builds on powerful traditions going back to Lisp. The whole idea of precompiling into assembler is a legacy of a period of extreme scarcity in computing (the 60’s and 70's). Today with engines like V8 JS is a high-performance language without the stifling restrictions of precompilation.
It’s not about fast bursts of code as much as a better understanding of the problem space and, if you really really need, hardware like graphics engines.
