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		w1ntermute on Sept 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tessel: The end of web development as we know it > V8 is actually much faster than Ruby or Python Actually, they are compiling to Lua bytecode in this case. > JS syntax is quite good for I/O And you can pass around blocks in Ruby.

aaronem on Sept 30, 2013 [–]

And you can't in Javascript? Sure, the syntax is a little clunky, but the semantics are precisely the same.

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