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Then again, by being experienced, you know that certain things just don't work and never will. Until you see a newbie do them because he didn't know it was "impossible".

Like the guy presenting his NES emulator at jsconf.eu in 2010 which was practically a line-by-line port of a Java emulator. If you'd have ask me whether it was possible to line-by-line port a Java application (and a complicated one at that) to JS, I would have told you that, of course, this was entirely impossible.

Until that guy, totally new to JS and emulation -heck - even programming in general - just did it because he didn't know better.

Sometimes, having a new perspective is very helpful and we must be careful not to lose that. Sure. The solution might not be perfect, but one can always refine it.





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