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I may be wrong but didn't they write their own language that compiles to javascript?

• joshuacc 12y ago
  It appears that they did. It was called LunaScript.
• marcog1 12y ago
  We did long ago, but ditched that idea because we get to use the tools of JS and we realised that effectively using a DSL embedded in another language allows the developer to break the rules of the DSL.
  • hackerboos 12y ago
    Surely those points apply to TypeScript.
    • malcolmredhero2 12y ago
      Lunascript was very different from JavaScript, partly because it had automatic support for our reactivity system. As a result it compiled to JavaScript that looked nothing like the original code (even the control flow was different). Reading this code was very difficult.
    • jacklionheart 12y ago
      The IDE support for TypeScript is actually pretty great; building our own tooling support for LunaScript felt like something we didn't really want to have to do.