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fanf2 on March 26, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

Then Lars Bak (who worked on Self and HotSpot) used the techniques to make JavaScript fast with v8

lioeters on March 26, 2020 [–]

This is the second time this week I've seen Lars Bak mentioned. I'm so glad to have learned about his work on virtual machines, it's a direct line through the history of programming languages, from Self, Smalltalk, Java, V8 JavaScript engine, and Dart as well.

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