TIL: Why ARM Has a JavaScript Instruction (notnotp.com)

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I know JavaScript is a very special boi but c’mon, you’re embarrassing me in front of the wizards.

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[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

TCL & CMake are fully stringly typed. Both pretty terrible languages (though TCL can at least claim to be a clever hack that was taken far too seriously).

[-] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oof, yeah, those count. The fact that CMake was best-in-class when I wrote C++ professionally was...awful.

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