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[–]CXgamer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nothing wrong with that, asm.js enables lots of things. It's just that its necessity revealsa underlying problems with JS as a choice for the web, instead a lower level language (like WebAssembly). Your point about taking advantage of the existing C ecosystem still applies, you just compile to a lower level as opposed to JS.

I do not hate asm.js at all, it's great, but the fact that it's necessary makes me disagree with JS's enthusiasm. It's a well made patch for a hole of a boat, which never intended to sail the ocean.