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by notheguyouthink 3250 days ago
Not saying this is the point of Coffee++, but I thought about doing the same thing for Golang -> JavaScript, specifically for React Native. I was willing to use a subset of Golang to get a 1:1 transpile.

My reasons were gaining that my tooling, testing, etc was very Go centric, yet React Native offered a compelling solution to mobile UI development.

Currently I'm choosing not to do it, mainly because JSX is a very nice syntax for React, compared to chaining Go functions ad infinitum. Regardless, I'm just offering some perspective as best I can. Making their own language though is a bit different than my example, because they're just changing syntax, not re-using tooling.