Chapter 4: 10 Languages That Compile to JavaScript
by James Kolce
This chapter includes a list of ten interesting languages that can compile to JavaScript to be executed in the browser or on a platform like Node.js.
Modern applications have different requirements from simple websites. But the browser is a platform with a (mostly) fixed set of technologies available, and JavaScript remains as the core language for web applications. Any application that needs to run in the browser has to be implemented in that language.
We all know that JavaScript isn’t the best language for every task, and when it comes to complex applications, it might fall short. To avoid this problem, several new languages and transpilers of existing ones have been created, ...
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