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JavaScript (not to be confused with Java) is a high-level, dynamic, multi-paradigm, weakly-typed language used for both client-side and server-side scripting. Use this tag for questions regarding common implementations of ECMAScript, JavaScript, JScript, etc. JS does not typically refer to its ECMA-cousin, ActionScript.
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Is JavaScript interpreted by design?
I just opened up JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and it states of the first page of chapter 1
"JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, untyped interpreted programming
language”
So am I to take it … There are no static compilers for JavaScript apparently -
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1118138/is-there-a-native-machine-code-compiler-for-javascript so maybe it's just a reflection of this. …