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Discussion on: Essential Concepts in JS

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Nick Haralampopoulos

Nice article about my beloved language. One little clarification though. Although Javascript is an interpreted language, all modern browsers support JIT compilation which converts it to bytecodes hence its high performance.

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Ritik Ambadi • Edited

Absolutely Nick. JIT makes JS much faster than it was some years ago but it still can't compete with statically typed compiled languages.
However I see a possible change with Web Assembly that can enhance existing JS projects. It's an exciting time to be alive.