Not trying to single out this project; more of a general question here.
Do we really need all of these JavaScript transpilers? TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Opal, Dart, Pyjamas, the list is a mile long. This isn't even the first Haskell to JavaScript transpiler; there are at least 8 others out there.
For a list of known transpilers you can see here.
https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS
Rather than all of this transpiler fragmentation I think the community would be better served if we embraced using JavaScript to it's full extent and helping people to learn how it really works.
bigtunacan 3887 days ago. link 2 points ▲ ▼