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Right- with JS the developer has little insight into or control over what interpreter will be used to run the code, so with Ruby I think there are fewer advanta
by waylandsmithers 6y ago
Right- with JS the developer has little insight into or control over what interpreter will be used to run the code, so with Ruby I think there are fewer advantages to portability.
My bigger issue is that this shifts control over the language from Matz and the community to the maintainers of this transpiler. Maybe they decide they want to support something like the ++ operator as a workaround to Matz's insistence that it should not be the language. Then what?
- Vinnl 6y agoProbably the same as happened to CoffeeScript: people with codebases in CoffeeScript are now stuck with a language that just few people know and is hardly maintained any more, and additionally doesn't really have that many particularly exciting features any more compared to the language proper.