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I have to admit that I just don't understand the value of this discussion. Regardless of whether JavaScript is like assembly or C or C++ or MSIL or punch cards
by politician 15y ago
I have to admit that I just don't understand the value of this discussion. Regardless of whether JavaScript is like assembly or C or C++ or MSIL or punch cards, I'm pretty sure all of us have heard of cross-compilation and that many of us realize the value of targeting the installed base (which is why we supported IE6 during the dark years).
Cross-compiling a language designed to address JavaScript's numerous flaws into a safe subset of JavaScript for wide deployment seems like one of those ideas that we already have a noncontroversial word for -- polyfill.
Prediction: Someone writes a CoffeeScript to Dart cross-compiler.