So I worked on a defuct N64 emulator, TRwin, back around 2000. Thirteen years later and thanks to the power of the modern web, my PC that's literally orders of magnitude faster runs the best JS emulator like a slide show. Using native code, my celeron400 with a Voodo card could run it full speed.
JavaScript is a toy language. But I do agree that strong typing and restrictions on GC like asm.js would help the situation. Unfortunately we can't rely on the standards bodies to make good decisions. Static typing was supposed to be in ECMAScript 4 back in 2008, but they abandoned it back in 2007.
It's still painfully clear to me the we are going backwards with all of these bloated poorly designed layers in HTML5 and I have little faith in the standards bodies.
JavaScript is a toy language. But I do agree that strong typing and restrictions on GC like asm.js would help the situation. Unfortunately we can't rely on the standards bodies to make good decisions. Static typing was supposed to be in ECMAScript 4 back in 2008, but they abandoned it back in 2007.
It's still painfully clear to me the we are going backwards with all of these bloated poorly designed layers in HTML5 and I have little faith in the standards bodies.
http://hulkholden.github.io/n64js/