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>No. You can build it in TypeScript or Dart or any number of more sane language and transpile to JavaScript. Which is what people are doing. Exactly, you can't
by peterbraden 8y ago
>No. You can build it in TypeScript or Dart or any number of more sane language and transpile to JavaScript. Which is what people are doing.
Exactly, you can't avoid javascript. Transpilation is at best a level of indirection.
I'm not answering my own objections, rather I'm pointing out that transpilation is a necessary evil, but it _was_ a mistake compared to the alternative, namely fixing modules.