zoi (13:10:31) they started with a half-assed interpreter and turns out the specifications are batshit
zoi (13:10:11) first you write specifications, then you make a compiler/interpreter
zoi (13:09:56) yeah, they started in the wrong end
zoner (13:09:05) and now the world is stuck with it
zoner (13:08:58) never intending to be "serious"
zoner (13:08:47) it was thought through in the span of a couple weeks.
zoi (13:08:24) but the language just wasn't thought through before it was standardized, and now we all suffer because of it
zoner (13:08:19) there have indeed been herculean efforts to make javascript very very fast. money talks.
zoi (13:07:47) modern JIT compilers do run javascript pretty quickly. most backends developed today probably run on node.js
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