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by lucian1900 5142 days ago
I disagree. If the support isn't perfect, you might as well not bother and help people learn your native language.
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I think the popularity of CoffeeScript is a datapoint against your idea. I bet a lot of pythonistas use it because it's less of a shift than Javascript. Also, in such a system, if people are curious enough, they will learn the native implementation language as a result of the system being so constructed.
I'm not sure it's a datapoint against; most people I talk to use it because it fixes objective flaws in JavaScript.