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		colordrops on April 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Announces React Fiber, a Rewrite of Its R... What does "lightweight scripting language" mean? So much hand waving in this thread. ES6 is an advanced programming language rivaling most others and JS VMs are some of the most optimized runtimes in existence.

quickben on April 20, 2017 [–]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_language

Arguing grammar and references to adoption rates just illustrates the rest.

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