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		tosh on May 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JavaScript at 20 As more and more people write software in languages that compile to JavaScript instead of directly hand-writing JavaScript the demand for JavaScript becoming a better compile target grows. In that sense adoption of Dart, ClojureScript, TypeScript, Elm et all will continue to accelerate JavaScript (language and runtime) improvements.

BrendanEich on May 16, 2015 [–]

All part of the plan. I've been saying this since 2012, Dave Herman and Alon Zakai of Mozilla Research (asm.js creators along with Luke Wagner) said it before me:

http://brendaneich.github.io/Strange-Loop-2012/#/21

Love it when a plan comes together!

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