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		olefoo on Sept 3, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Chrome: Why I’m Not Excited Except that you can do things like automatically transform python code into javascript, I've fiddled with that on occasion for form validators. If you want to go deep in that direction look at http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/js/whatis.html but really, just learn javascript it's not that bad.

iman on Sept 3, 2008 [–]

Yep, there are many other languages that can be compiled to javascript:

Ocaml to javascript compiler: http://skydeck.com/blog/programming/ocamljs-ocaml-to-javascr...

Haskell to javascript compiler: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yhc/Javascript

Haxe to javascript compiler: http://haxe.org/doc/start/js

ECMAScript4 to (classic) javascript compiler: http://ecmascript4.com/

Java to javascript compiler: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/com.google.g...

I'm sure there are others as well.

twopoint718 on Sept 4, 2008 | [–]

Had to plug it:

A "Lispy" language to javascript: http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/

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