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Is it JavaScript's destiny to accomplish what Java was intended to achieve and be ubiquitous throughout computing? JavaScript founder Brendan Eich believes that could be the case.

Speaking at the Node Summit conference in San Francisco this week, Eich talked about what could be in store for the popular language. "I think JavaScript has an evolutionary destiny to be what Java was trying to be -- this sort of virtual machine embedded everywhere that you can target code at," and support multiple languages, Eich said during a panel session on the evolution of JavaScript.

"The JVM absolutely does that well," he added. "But there is another destiny that's in front of us right now with JavaScript that's competing, and that's hand-coding and evolving the language." The ECMA committee overseeing JavaScript is taking a look at JavaScript as a target of compilers as well as hand-coding, he said.

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