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Lovely article but I'd like to ask that we call things that "compile to javascript" transpilers. JS is not "web assembly" and if we keep communicating that mess
by bdg 14y ago
Lovely article but I'd like to ask that we call things that "compile to javascript" transpilers. JS is not "web assembly" and if we keep communicating that message in the community it will be believed to be.
- tree_of_item 14y agoProjects like this are motivated by a belief that JavaScript _is_ web assembly, though.
- postfuturist 14y agoWhat's wrong with calling them compilers? Compilation does not imply an assembly language target.
- yoklov 14y agoI disagree, as that's silly, and semantically incorrect. Calling the Fay compiler a "transpiler" would imply that it is a source->source compilation, like CoffeeScript. From what I can tell, it _actually compiles some of Haskell to JavaScript_, so the term does not really apply. Besides, what's wrong with JS being web assembly? You like JS? Fine, use JS. Nobody is taking that away from you.