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irickt on Feb 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Non-framework approach to JavaScript apps - hexago...

If a version of hexagonal targeted java then it would be "hexagonal.java". But .coffee and .js target the same "binary" so .js is the correct designation. It's about the runtime not the language.

laurent123456 on Feb 22, 2013 [–]

Following this logic, they could have called it hexagonal.asm since it's eventually run as binary code.

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