Forrest L Norvell & Brian Ford: MONKEYPATCH THE PLANET! | NodeConf ONE-SHOT | JSFest Oakland 2014

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How far can we take JavaScript itself? @briantford and I have both spent a lot of time pushing the limits of metaprogramming in JavaScript and have learned an inordinate amount about what can and can't be done with raw JavaScript as a result. How far can you get and how fast, even without transpilers, AST parsers, or macro systems? And how much further can we go when we add those into the mix?

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