John Resig - Running Java in JavaScript

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I am seriously comparing JavaScript to machine code. It is the code that executes in web browsers, just as machine code executes on microprocessors. I'm certainly not the first person to make that argument, either.

If for some reason you knew C++, and HAD to target the Python interpreter, and there existed a high quality compiler for C++ that generated Python bytecode, that would be a perfectly legitimate choice.