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0 pointsMatthewPhillips13y ago0 comments

? Doesn't this show that we aren't stuck with the same hammer? Opal is a different hammer.

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Not really. You're still using Javascript in the end.

How is that a bad thing? Source code VMs are easier to secure and as the tooling improves, you don't need to look a the generated JS anymore to debug, it becomes "byte code".

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0 pointsMatthewPhillips13y ago0 comments

? Doesn't this show that we aren't stuck with the same hammer? Opal is a different hammer.

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rrouse13y ago

Not really. You're still using Javascript in the end.

ville13y ago

How is that a bad thing? Source code VMs are easier to secure and as the tooling improves, you don't need to look a the generated JS anymore to debug, it becomes "byte code".

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