Things you didn't know JavaScript could do

s_henry_paulson · on June 25, 2012

Expected a "10 things you already know" list, but ended up quite surprised by some of these.

I found the last two especially interesting.

tbassetto · on June 25, 2012

Why not mentioning running Linux kernel? http://bellard.org/jslinux

Also, with https://github.com/kripken/emscripten you can run a "port" quite a bunch of apps to JavaScript.

And don't forget you can decode several audio codecs: http://labs.official.fm/codecs/ and video codecs: https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway + http://people.xiph.org/~bens/route9/route9.html

jiggy2011 · on June 25, 2012

None of these are massively surprising, you can pretty much shim your way into doing anything when you have control of the environment. Turing equivalence and all that..