I stashed this away long ago and can’t find the source (HN? reddit? a blog?). Funny how lossy the web can be… Brendan Eich: Performance gaps in JS engines get filled all the time. This is different in kind from potentially adding a second VM, requiring cross-VM-heap cycle GC, etc. See https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/018811.html Dennis described some of C’s flaws (which JS inherited) in typically humble style here: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.h...
