ShiftJS – Swift to JavaScript transpiler

Re:ShiftJS – Swift to JavaScript transpiler by coldtea on Monday August 15, 2016 @09:15AM (#12290178)

>Perhaps you don't think you could "just as well" program in assembly language, but there are many many people who do, perhaps not in your own problem domain.

I don't think it matters if there are "many people who do" -- as long as they are still a small minority compared to those who don't. After all you can find people believing everything, I'm sure some are even writing web apps in Assembly.

That said, C to Assembly (as opposed to binary executive) could be said to be transpiling too -- from "portable assembly to assembly".

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Re:ShiftJS – Swift to JavaScript transpiler by closure on Monday August 15, 2016 @10:27AM (#12290622)

So the number of people doing something is how you determine the definition of a word?

That really makes no sense.

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Re:ShiftJS – Swift to JavaScript transpiler by coldtea on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:50AM (#12291210)

Err, number of people agreeing on a specific meaning is exactly what determines the definitions of a word.

Same for usage of things.

There were always be outliers for whom a thing is better used for Y rather than X, but in the end is what the majority sees the tool as useful for that determines how it's defined (in casual use, dictionaries etc).

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