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by maxgraey 2684 days ago
I wonder why people still try write transpiler from JS to C/C++ or LLVM (which make sense at least). But this not performant way and usually produce much bigger overhead than jit vm which use speculative optimizations.

Some projects: 1. https://github.com/fabiosantoscode/js2cpp 2. https://github.com/raphamorim/js2c 3. https://github.com/ammer/js2c 4. https://github.com/NectarJS/nectarjs 5. https://github.com/ovr/StaticScript