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em-beeyesterday at 11:30 PM2 repliesview on HN

getting rid of javascript entirely means to be able to manipulate the DOM without writing any javascript code. not to remove javascript from the browser. javascript will still be there if you want to use it.


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catlifeonmarstoday at 12:35 AM

Most of the time your toolchain provides a shim so you don’t need to write JS anyway. What’s the difference?

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bonestamp2today at 4:08 AM

Fair enough, I misunderstood what he meant by "deprecate JS runtimes".