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I would love to see javascript turn into assembly language. Google has already done with with GWT with great improvements in productivity. One question I had w

I would love to see javascript turn into assembly language. Google has already done with with GWT with great improvements in productivity. One question I had while reading this. Was there a technical reason why he didn't make a gem or toolkit in pure Ruby or Python that would then spit out Javascript? I think this is closer to how GWT did it where you can write pure Java, and of course it then wouldn't require people to learn a new language.

oscilloscope 16y ago
The issue is Ruby/Python/Java's semantics don't map perfectly to JavaScript. As it says in the documentation, the golden rule of CoffeeScript is "It's just JavaScript". For people who know JavaScript, it's not a new language-- just some syntactic sugar and a few bonus features.