Javascript bytecode

[Max Samukha]

On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 11:00:01 UTC, Max Samukha wrote:
> 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.

Another example. Many of us here are talking in an intermediate 
language, which not English :) The concept of a common 
representation works pretty well here.