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Very true. It's also one of the only languages out there to let you inspect functions' source code, which means you can implement full-blown Lisp macros in it using eval(). Given its popularity and the runtime performance of V8, I think this makes it the ultimate language for the next decade.

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It's also one of the only languages out there to let you inspect functions' source code

Got any pointers on this? I've been searching a little and unable to find this and haven't heard of this level of introspection before.

Well actually, I did end up writing Lisp on top of Javascript this way: http://github.com/spencertipping/caterwaul.

The basic mechanism is to call f.toString() on some function, then construct a new one the way you want it using either eval() (for non-IE browsers), or new Function(code) (for all browsers). Caterwaul leverages this by implementing a JS parser, defining a macro syntax, and letting you determine how the code gets rewritten. (So you can do things like let[x = 5] in x + 1, which is valid JS to begin with but nobody would ever use it :) )

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