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borisj on Aug 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine

A lot of this exact advice was applicable when I was first learning C and C++ in college. Some of it was enforced by certain compilers' errors even. Interesting how the more things change, the more they stay the same.

seangrogg on Aug 23, 2017 [–]

A lot of this likely has to do with the fact that the underlying components of v8 are written in C++.

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