Languages don't live in isolation. They are products of their time and their fates are tied to their ecosystems. JS is a popular porting target because the brow

Languages don't live in isolation. They are products of their time and their fates are tied to their ecosystems. JS is a popular porting target because the browser is a widely-deployed environment, but also because platforms like Node and Electron are in widespread use, and therefore targeting JS enables targeting some frontends and some backends with the same code. This project even takes special care in supporting the differences between execution environments. Ports to languages that compete in the same solution space are more prone to drawing criticism because, almost by definition, ports are designed to be feature-comparable, yet cross-language rewrites benefit both from the thorough examination that naturally must take place during a rewrite, and the different features offered by the target language. Most arguments about cross-language rewrites are proxy arguments about whether the bulk of the benefit comes from starting over, or mainly from a tool that offers different -- say, more intuitive, or less error-prone -- ways of capturing what the programmer means; intermingled with a fair bit of language favoritism.