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pjmlp on May 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: FYI: No JIT on Windows 8 for ARM

This is just someone whining about not being able to use their favorite language for all tasks.

Just use a language has implementations that target native code or MSIL, problem solved.

A professional developer makes use of the best tool for the job, among the set of available ones.

malkia on May 10, 2012 [–]

There is no "best tool" for the job. Used to be that you've had one tool for the job 50 years ago, now you have 50 tools for the same job. And 500 more, And 5000 coming...

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