There are only 4 commits since the last release 6 months ago, and most of the commits are from two authors. This doesn't look like a healthy active project.

Seems like grandfather of babel. Why would anyone use it, when babel has moved miles forward?

I guess Google put more effort into TypeScript, this project seems like it's almost dead.

In short, this is Babel by Google that runs with its own additional runtime?

Traceur has been around for years, much longer than Babel, it's a Google project but afaik it's mostly the work of one person

Traceur was the inspiration for Babel. Not the other way around.

Yep!

> We also presented Traceur at NodeConf 2011. The video is available on YouTube [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nt...

Traceur doesn't use semver. I've used it for a while, but frequent breakages were annoying. Having to lock it down to an ageing version and being afraid to update it is a liability.

Adding "Traceur" in the title would make this more clear. It's an old project, and, I believe, mostly forgotten.

I actually assumed the link was a new announcement.

You must be new here. The titles are supposed to be vague and clickbaity. Don't ask me why; that's just how things are here on HN.

You can check the age of an account by clicking on the user name.

I tend to prefer direct discourse online rather than cynicism or sarcasm.

Why not both? “Normal” criticism is boring and gets ignored; you have to add sarcasm to increase the likelihood of a response.

Yes, thank you. We've updated the title.