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I can't comment on the quality of the library, but I did get a quick chuckle from the term "close to the metal" being used to describe a Javascript browser library.

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I think very soon, "low-level programming" will mean writing JavaScript directly without a transpiler.

It has been referred to as the "Assembly Language of the Web"

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageF...

Why Not? They appropriated “real time” already.

Soon? I’ve already seen that described as low level JS

Obligatory XKCD (albeit about editors)

https://www.xkcd.com/378

> I did get a quick chuckle from the term "close to the metal" being used to describe a Javascript browser library.

This and "blazing fast" make me cringe every time.

It’s a bit of a joke, really ;)

As well as ”turboboosted”. Don’t take them too seriously :D

No, it isn't. It's completely intentional marketing. That diction was specifically used to get people to think the library is better than other libraries.

Believe me, I wrote the library ;)

For better or worse, we are not far from "bare metal javascript"

There is wasmjit [1] a kernel module that enables execution of webassembly via the linux kernel.

Furthermore there is AssemblyScript [2] that allows to transpile typed javascript to WebAssembly

[1] https://github.com/rianhunter/wasmjit

[2] https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript

Good grief we've reached the point of a JS interpreter running in ring 0? Gary Bernhardt was a prophet.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

Well, strictly speaking, WASM and JS are two different things, but basically yeah.

All you need is a full operating system and a >100mb full compliant browser. Doesn't get much closer than that./s

Yeah - I think the term "close to the metal Javascript" belongs to things like this:

https://esp32.com/viewtopic.php?t=497

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