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Fastest growing category of source code

Looking back at the amount of JavaScript now present in TaskBeat.com it’s just madness. This might just as well be a JavaScript application, which is funny in a way because from a web-browser perspective it’s still just a web page, which is never meant to be. TaskBeat has a huge back end which is entirely compiled (no faking with vbrun or opcode) which makes the logic and the cache blazing fast (on Intel). JavaScript is entirely different (mind browser compilers) but it’s also now the fastest growing category of source code in the entire project, even though we do a lot to optimise by throwing out stuff just for the browsers to keep up.