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Re:Civet: A Superset of TypeScript by shermantanktop on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @01:54PM (#41916849)
It's the Hibernate problem all over again. Any time one language is layered on another, the user is totally unaware of the degenerate cases that they are triggering, and the higher language is usually blocked from fixing those. Similar to C++ preprocessors which generated poor C.
Re:Civet: A Superset of TypeScript by donatj on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @04:05PM (#41918146)
You just about need some sort of ast optimizer or some such.