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		bcoates on Feb 28, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A cartoon intro to WebAssembly Some people think their problem is JavaScript (most of these people are wrong)

Gaelan on March 1, 2017 [–]

JavaScript (ES6) is a decent language, but some people prefer another language. While it is true that anything that can be accomplished on the web can be accomplished with JS (Turing completeness and all), people may not enjoy working with it.

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