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MatthewPhillips on Oct 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Opal - Ruby to Javascript compiler

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

rrouse on Oct 19, 2012 [–]

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

ville on Oct 19, 2012 | [–]

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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