Mr. Schlueter writes "you don’t compile it to target a given platform," as if this would be an advantage or a justification for existing ... when it's really quite the opposite.
I don't know when "order of magnitude difference" became a synonym for "worthwhile difference"
I didn't see Schlueter arguing either of these things, but we may have read the post differently. Both points, in my view, seemed only to illustrate that the JS-Assembly analogy is wrong, not to argue against to-JS languages.
Okay, I'll give you #2 after that. And I'll point out that asking for a 10:1 difference in expressiveness from JS is, let's face it, ridiculous. (Except in specialized domain applications perhaps.)
Mr. Schlueter writes "you don’t compile it to target a given platform," as if this would be an advantage or a justification for existing ... when it's really quite the opposite.
I don't know when "order of magnitude difference" became a synonym for "worthwhile difference"
I didn't see Schlueter arguing either of these things, but we may have read the post differently. Both points, in my view, seemed only to illustrate that the JS-Assembly analogy is wrong, not to argue against to-JS languages.