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by megaman22 2933 days ago
That's using JS as a compilation target, through. Increasingly, it's very rare to actually write JS - even when one writes JS, one is mostly running it through Babel or some other com(trans)piler, so that one can use a nicer dialect.

I can write .NET IL assembly. But I prefer to write C# and use csc.exe to output that IL.