Nah. It's just that different people have different tastes. Don't compare JavaScript alternatives to people wanting an alternative to Java bytecode; compare Jav

Nah. It's just that different people have different tastes. Don't compare JavaScript alternatives to people wanting an alternative to Java bytecode; compare JavaScript alternatives to people wanting an alternative to Java. It's just that, at least for the first couple decades of its existence, the platform in question had no bytecode, so transpiling was the only way to escape.