Things you didn't know JavaScript could do(netmagazine.com)

Things you didn't know JavaScript could do

http://www.netmagazine.com/features/10-things-you-didnt-know-javascript-could-do

3 comments

Expected a "10 things you already know" list, but ended up quite surprised by some of these.

I found the last two especially interesting.

tbassetto14 anni fa

Why not mentioning running Linux kernel? http://bellard.org/jslinux

Also, with https://github.com/kripken/emscripten you can run a "port" quite a bunch of apps to JavaScript.

And don't forget you can decode several audio codecs: http://labs.official.fm/codecs/ and video codecs: https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway + http://people.xiph.org/~bens/route9/route9.html

jiggy201114 anni fa

None of these are massively surprising, you can pretty much shim your way into doing anything when you have control of the environment. Turing equivalence and all that..