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opaque_salmon on June 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Swift will be open source later this year”

JavaScript's domain is mostly client side web browser scripting, and no language is close to throwing it off its throne. So no, JavaScript will always have its place.

Lio on June 9, 2015 [–]

ASM.js though makes languages with manual memory management relevant to web front-end work.

Hopefully, Swift might be a good candidate for fast browser code.

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