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The idea of a good language evolves over time, and varies among people. Look at how many languages transpile to JavaScript today. If you ask the users of those
by dorfsmay 11y ago
The idea of a good language evolves over time, and varies among people. Look at how many languages transpile to JavaScript today. If you ask the users of those languages, they'll tell that their language is the "better language" you're looking for.
- TimJYoung 11y agoYep, I wrote a blog post about this not too long ago: http://www.elevatesoft.com/blog?action=view&id=why_limit_web_development_to_javascript http://www.elevatesoft.com/blog?action=view&id=why_limit_web... From the post, there's this very illuminating link that I'm sure most here have already seen: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu... That's a pretty long list. :-)
- dorfsmay 11y agoThanks, I hadn't even realised the scope of it, I really thought there was a dozen of them. This link is worth its own posting!
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