Javascript wasn't good enough, so we built our own language

[andyvan-ph]

Via Marius

Cool. At some point we could do some series of articles around the question of why we had to build our own programming language, and the process of building it.

What we want to get ahead of is people asking "is there an actual reason I have to use this new language, why couldn't you have done this with the JS/Python/COBOL that I know?".

There are many strong reasons why we did it, the two main ones being 1) an extremely light overhead allowing us to run thousands of different pieces of code each second with no bootup cost, and 2) the VM execution model that lets us pause the world and resume on a different machine when we make a fetch call.

Explaining all of that can generate many words of content.