On 2015-09-03 05:57, Walter Bright wrote:
I don't see a whole lot of point to generating JS from another language. You can't do anything more than JS can do, and you're likely to be doing less.
There's a lot of stuff other languages can do that JS can't. For example, classes, which a lot of developers prefer to use in favor of the weird object system in JS.
Although now with ECMAScript 6 classes are supported. But it will still be a long time before enough web browsers support E6. Therefore it can be useful to have an E6 compiler that translates to E5 or E3 compatible JS.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
