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		erikpukinskis on July 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JS is Assembly Language for the Web: Brendan Eich,... You can do that with almost any language What other language runs in all browsers?

cageface on July 20, 2011 [–]

None, I'm just saying that nothing in Javascript other than its ubiquity makes it particularly suitable for this.

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