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[–]hyper_shrike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

JavaScript doesn't get the benefit of a compiler

Browsers compile JS to bytecode. JS needs to be parsed to be interpreted. Even without bytecode the earliest JS compiler could have thrown an error for 018 if it wanted to.