Comment by codedokode

3 months ago

The browser could use Java or .NET bytecode interpreter - in this case it doesn't need to have a compiler and you can use any language - but in this case you won't be able to see a script's source code.

You already effectively can't see a scripts source code because we compile, minify, and obfuscate JS these days. Because the performance characteristics are so poor.

Actually, most of the time C# decompiles nicer from CLR bytecode than esoterically built JS.