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by smt88 1268 days ago
> If we're going to have a backward-incompatible change, we should do things the right way

It makes much more sense to use a good language (Kotlin, Rust, Java) and transpile to JavaScript. There's already great tooling for it.

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JavaScript seems an unlikely compiler target, forced on us out of the odd historical success of JS on the browser. I'd think that a better target would be to make a VM like WASM.
If WASM were a viable target today, I'd agree, but it isn't yet.

Transpiling to JS is ready for production and widely compatible with all browsers already.

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