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speed up, not only, math and object-intensive applications (as it does now) but also regular DOM manipulation Agreed. The sooner they get to that, the better! Edit: As an aside, the web arguably wouldn't have happened without "stealing code". I see this as a strength not a weakness.
I'm not against open sourcing code, or giving away helpful small things, but at the moment anyone can copy every bit of useful functionality of a JS application and just create their own back-end. That is a very ridiculous concept, and there isn't much that can be done about it if that person isn't within the same country.
you need to run arbitrary binary code on my machine? the nerve.