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Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by douche on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @07:40AM (#11438069)
That'd be fine, if there was any other tool that worked in a browser. Sure, you can transpile from some other real language, but it's still javascript when you finish up, with all the foibles and warts that haven't been fixed in twenty years.

Unfortunately, instead of going back and fixing core deficiencies in the language standard, it looks like ES6 & 7 are thick cakings of lipstick on the pig.

Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by ZenoArrow on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @08:02AM (#11438146)
> "Unfortunately, instead of going back and fixing core deficiencies in the language standard, it looks like ES6 & 7 are thick cakings of lipstick on the pig."

The fix isn't ES6/7, it's WebAssembly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly