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Re:A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to ... by xyzzy123 on Friday March 25, 2022 @11:52AM (#30803651)
Yes although it might be readable in the same way that autotools configure scripts are readable -- technically you can, but you probably don't want to, and if you need to then something has gone badly wrong.
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Re:A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to ... by xg15 on Friday March 25, 2022 @01:57PM (#30805269)
I mean yes. Things do go wrong, especially with bleeding-edge projects such as this.

You'll have to look at that output if you want to debug things, understand error messages.

As such, I'd absolutely see it as a quality measure for a transpiler how readable the code it produces is.

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Re:A statically typed scripting language that transpiles to ... by em-bee on Friday March 25, 2022 @12:48PM (#30804410)
yeah, that's kind of what i meant. especially if the script has external commands you should be able to at least recognize something.
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