how many transpilers are in existence today?
Dart...
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janvladimirmostert
11/30/2017, 7:36 AMhow many transpilers are in existence today?
Dart is quite nice, the little bit I've worked with KotlinJS, it's nice too!
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dh44t
11/30/2017, 2:01 PMI like TypeScript a lot.. the problem is that at the end is still JS in the background
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napperley
11/30/2017, 7:22 PMAccording to the last guesstimate: over 200! Here is the non-exhaustive list: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-js
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janvladimirmostert
11/30/2017, 10:34 PMWow, that's an impressive list! JavaScript must be horrific if there are so many transpilers for it
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napperley
12/01/2017, 6:03 AMJust imagine what the WASM language list will be like once WASM has matured 😉.
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janvladimirmostert
12/01/2017, 9:12 AMCan't wait for WASM! Hopefully it's done properly so that we can once and for all get rid of JS