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Re:Web Assembly by dorfsmay on Monday November 09, 2015 @08:04PM (#10536971)
The idea of a good language evolves over time, and varies among people. Look at how many languages transpile to JavaScript today. If you ask the users of those languages, they'll tell that their language is the "better language" you're looking for.
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Re:Web Assembly by TimJYoung on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @07:23AM (#10538896)
Yep, I wrote a blog post about this not too long ago:

http://www.elevatesoft.com/blog?action=view&id=why_limit_web...

From the post, there's this very illuminating link that I'm sure most here have already seen:

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

That's a pretty long list. :-)

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Re:Web Assembly by dorfsmay on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @12:29PM (#10540748)
Thanks, I hadn't even realised the scope of it, I really thought there was a dozen of them. This link is worth its own posting!
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