> JavaScript really isn't hard, trying to avoid writing it by writing a more complex language which gives you more JavaScript than you would have had anyway rea

> JavaScript really isn't hard, trying to avoid writing it by writing a more complex language which gives you more JavaScript than you would have had anyway really can't ever be a win surely? I've had massive business value from writing code in a more type safe language and then transpiling it into a number of other languages, including javascript.