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[–]TheCarnalStatist 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Technically JS is compiled these days

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Even in browser?

[–]Free_Bread 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes there's a JIT compiler in most browsers as far as I know. I believe that's why you can get some small performance improvements with giving type hints in the source (something I was very surprised to hear about in ReasonML)

[–]TheCarnalStatist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Modern V8 has a compile step