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Go provides excellent packaging, and runtime with good gc and goroutines. Those are some of the biggest investments to be made for a language.

Imagine you want all those three features without the original syntax vomit. Transpiling is a great way to leverage the underlying engine. Similar to how many other languages build on top of LLVM.

So while there is no strict lockin as js had with browsers, achieving a runtime on par with go is a huge moat to cross on your own.