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by bitwize 1204 days ago
There are popular JavaScript tools that nearly everyone uses, that reimplement Lisp poorly by source-to-source compiling stuff written against the latest new hotness spec into something that can be run by some old-and-busted JavaScript runtime (e.g., in browsers).

In fact this is how TypeScript is implemented.

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A pass to strip some type annotations isn't a poor reimplementation of Lisp, jeez.

I know the quote you're referring to but you're stretching a mile to get there.