• 0x1C3B00DA
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    4 years ago

    Javascript is not the only, or even the first, interpreted language. Having a VM doesn’t mean a language is bloated

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      4 years ago

      I don’t think, the word “bloated” is clearly enough defined to have an argument over it. And this meme was merely insinuating that you need a lot of RAM to run a Hello World written in JavaScript, which is true, because its VM is a browser.

      Also, I would generally call other interpreted languages “bloated”, too. I mean, Python is horrendously slow.
      Even Java and the likes, which get compiled to “Byte Code” and then this Byte Code is interpreted by the JVM, is still a language which I consider “bloated”, unless it’s used for large-scale applications where the JVM overhead really doesn’t matter anymore.

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      4 years ago

      That depends on the runtime environment I’d say.