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Users are right to be irritated when we break code theyвЂ™ve been using successfully for years. I think itвЂ™s a bad language feature, but removing it would break too many add-ons. I donвЂ™t think we will ever be able to remove вЂfor eachвЂ™. Yusuke, thanks for taking the time to look into this. It is a good example of how evolutionary baggage accumulates over time. IвЂ™m surprised they depreciated something so common, but at least they decided to keep the old syntax in addition to the new. I had no idea it was in the process of being removed in favor of a new construct called вЂњfor (variable of iterable)вЂќ. I just learned that вЂњfor each (variable in object)вЂќ is depreciated. (sorry, it got long, I repeat myself a lot, I donвЂ™t have time to do edit it into something smaller right now)Д®dit: the list of things they already broke: вЂ¦. Instead of 1 step away from optimal performance if you created that code yourself. Then you are already 2 steps away from optimal performance. If the layer you are talking to doesnвЂ™t even give you what you need for your use case. It will never give you exactly what you need for your use case. Abstraction also only gives you some predefined вЂseemed useful for some use casesвЂ™ layer (API) you can talk to. The reason is abstraction make you use something without knowing what it is doing (yes, this only applies if you are using someone elseвЂ™s code, but that is what is going on most of the time) and because you donвЂ™t know what it is doing you are going to use it wrong. Everything else is going to be slower.ДЄbstraction is the antithesis of optimisation. If your program is fully loaded in the CPU-cache then you get the real native speed. And bloated programs donвЂ™t stay as a whole in the CPU-cache.

It does a whole lot of other stuff you donвЂ™t need. And pretty much everyone ends up using code from someone else which sort of does what you need. Or make it easier for less knowledgeable developers to still build things. Or to safe time because you donвЂ™t have to implement something yourself. The other problem is: abstraction.ДЄbstraction is meant to make it easier to move to an other platform.

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Software used to be build for the hardware. A small loss also happens because of compatibility. The larger the program, the more time it takes to optimise something. Especially if you want something standardised and compliant so it works the same in all browsers.ДЄlso: itвЂ™s an emulator, it will never be exactly the same as the original.ДЄnyway, I agree. Those are the kinds of optimisations youвЂ™ve have with native code, it takes time to build those for JS as well. Faster threading is being worked on as a standard. asm.js is being standardised as WebAssembly. But WebGL doesnвЂ™t work on every browser/hardware/operating system combination yet. WebGL helps a lot here especially for games. The problem is doesnвЂ™t have all the optimisations yet that youвЂ™d want. So having it available on both/multiple platforms is a good thing.ДЄsm.js as it was called is getting faster: Maybe the desktop/whatever we use now might not be around anymore in that many years.

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They have the original files you can download and people can run them in desktop emulators as well. So if we keep doing things right, we can still use this in 30 years, maybe a 100 years. The reason they are porting it to a browser is because everyone has one or more browsers. Software isnвЂ™t blessed by the same zen of optimization that we had in the past. ThereвЂ™s very little that we should have to wait for given the technological advancement. I canвЂ™t help but feel a bit disappointed: TodayвЂ™s budget computer can run multi gigahertz chips and gigabytes of ram running at ten gigabyte/s speeds, gigabit networks, SSDs, etc, yet software still feels sluggish. Yet thereвЂ™s little incentive for modern companies to pay for optimized code. Makes me wonder if this novelty will ever wear off? WeвЂ™re all so spoiled with this amazing hardware, which has gotten magnitudes better. People are still impressed by the novelty: вЂњвЂ¦but it works in a browser!вЂќ. Incidentally, the bar for performance is set much lower with JS than with native code.

On the other hand, itвЂ™s running in the browser so I guess we should give it some slack. On the one hand, I would criticize it for struggling to run 1990s era software. I think itвЂ™s neat to have an amiga emulator. DoesnвЂ™t look like they tested it in firefox because I just got javascript errors.