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There are popular JavaScript tools that nearly everyone uses, that reimplement Lisp poorly by source-to-source compiling stuff written against the latest new ho
by bitwize 4y ago
There are popular JavaScript tools that nearly everyone uses, that reimplement Lisp poorly by source-to-source compiling stuff written against the latest new hotness spec into something that can be run by some old-and-busted JavaScript runtime (e.g., in browsers).
In fact this is how TypeScript is implemented.
- Dylan16807 4y agoA pass to strip some type annotations isn't a poor reimplementation of Lisp, jeez. I know the quote you're referring to but you're stretching a mile to get there.