Javascript bytecode

[Max Samukha]

On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 10:30:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/21/2012 2:13 AM, Max Samukha wrote:
>> What Walter is wrong about is that bytecode is entirely 
>> pointless.
>
> I'll bite. What is its advantage over source code?

It is not about bytecode vs source code. It is about a common 
platform-independent  intermediate representation for multiple 
languages. JS is such a representation in the browsers and it is 
widely used. It it entirely pointless? I am not convinced it is.