[tptacek]

Right! And this isn't even a compiler, the way most people think of "compilers". It's a transpiler to three target languages each of which has an extraordinarily full-featured runtime. Two of which are (a) widely available and (b) as source languages, awful.

[cwyers]

And it's not their own language, it's an extension of VBScript. And now that the tools around C# are better and Linux support for .Net is official, they have used these tools to transition to C#. Like you, I don't get the outrage.

[slantyyz]

Do you think that the name Wasabi contributes to the outrage?

Coffeescript has a similar name to Javascript, so you can quickly draw an association between the two.

The name Wasabi doesn't have an obvious connection to the VBScript that it's based on, which seems to be the cause of people talking about writing a whole new language, etc.

[krallja]

We had a (re)naming competition for the language, and Wasabi came in second. The winner was actually Bone Crusher 3000. http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-origin-of-wasabi/

Thistle -> FogBasic -> BC3k -> Wasabi

[tptacek]

See, right here you can see HN always picks the wrong things to be outraged about.

[Vendan]

And now I'm upset you renamed it from Bone Crusher 3000. That's just an epic name!

[x0x0]

And if this targeted (asp or php) to js, people would love it.

[tedunangst]

Javascript was one of the backends.