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Yes, but that's not the point: you don't have to write JavaScript yourself.
by mepian 8y ago
Yes, but that's not the point: you don't have to write JavaScript yourself.
- coldtea 8y agoNo, but you still have to suffer the fact that the language you do write in is translated to JS, and doesn't have first class browser support.
- mepian 8y agoThis doesn't seem to deter the users of TypeScript, one of the languages that made it to this top 10 ranking.
- WalterSear 8y agoApart from types, it is javascript. You even have to configure the flavor of javascript you are writing in, and many otherwise javascript-based packages provide typescript type definitions, to maintain interoperability.
- coldtea 8y agoThat's because it was created to keep all the semantics and underlying behavior the same. So this is not like using Python to JS, or Haskell to JS, or whatever, where there are even types (e.g. any not float numerical type) that are not supported directly by the underlying engine.