And assembly is just abstracted bytecode in a certain syntax.
It's rad that you're totally into CoffeeScript, but splitting hairs like this is silly. A lot of the metaphor comes from the fact that JavaScript is actually compiled down to assembly in software like v8. X to JS compilers can even take advantage of that knowledge as well and produce optimized JS for those compilers (I'm sure GWT leverages this) So yes, JavaScript is more like C in that sense, but C compiles so ridiculously close to assembly that it's practically just there to make system calls and memory management easy for you.
So, if anything Javascript is the common language of distribution, or the English of the web.
It's rad that you're totally into CoffeeScript, but splitting hairs like this is silly. A lot of the metaphor comes from the fact that JavaScript is actually compiled down to assembly in software like v8. X to JS compilers can even take advantage of that knowledge as well and produce optimized JS for those compilers (I'm sure GWT leverages this) So yes, JavaScript is more like C in that sense, but C compiles so ridiculously close to assembly that it's practically just there to make system calls and memory management easy for you.
So, if anything Javascript is the common language of distribution, or the English of the web.