I like the simplicity of that gist. Very cool hack. However if I was to implement a Python to JavaScript compiler, would there be some benefits in transforming

I like the simplicity of that gist. Very cool hack. However if I was to implement a Python to JavaScript compiler, would there be some benefits in transforming the Python AST into a JS AST first? There are existing code generators such as escodegen that transform that AST to JavaScript code.