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"JavaScript can be the native format of your data"

I don't think developers appreciate how amazing this feature is in a language.

Code should be a data-structure giving you all the benefits of data-structures including persistence.

Closer to homoiconicity, but not quite there.

Ya. Exactly. I like that term.

Not exactly at all. Homoiconicity is when your program can be represented as a data structure. Like, literally a data structure. JavaScript doesn't even come close to that.

Assuming you are talking about JSON, that isn't even close to homoiconicity. Even if it were, any JSON you send/receive over the wire still has to be encoded/decoded into JSON, taking you right back to square one just like with any other language consuming JSON.

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