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Many language compile to JS nowadays! (PureScript, ClojureScript and GHCJS are a few I personally would really like to use)

I think currently there are more languages compiling to JS then to JVM. :)



I personally use scala.js and clojurescript quite a bit, but in every case of an existing non-JS language compiling to JS, there is a semantic mismatch coming from the runtime mismatch. This results from various things like the lack of static types, threads, 64 bit integers, etc. Furthermore, the performance still leaves a lot to be desired.

WASM holds a lot more promise for all of these problems.


Yeah but just because you can...




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