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by AstralStorm 2685 days ago
JS interpreter, thanks to asm.js, can be used to run any language. Knock yourself out.

Of course you get to deal with a bit of FFI when calling built-in functionality of the browser.

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Thanks to adapters, you can plug an american fridge in a french socket. I'll still buy the one made for the local electrical system.
So, you'd write in an inferior language when even web framework authors don't want to?

(See CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Elm, etc. Or Transcrypt if you want pythonic semantics.)

I understand this being a business requirement made by a business droid. Other than that, there is really no reason to be married to JavaScript.