Ask HN: I hate JavaScript

Re:Ask HN: I hate JavaScript by 27182818284 on Saturday October 04, 2014 @09:49PM (#8411199)

There are lots of languages nicer than JS that compile down to JS.

That said, you don't need JS to make a webapp. You can do it strictly with server-side code and HTML.

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Re:Ask HN: I hate JavaScript by saltcookie on Saturday October 04, 2014 @10:04PM (#8411228)

i read about a project that converts llvm byte code to javascript, do any of u know about it

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Re:Ask HN: I hate JavaScript by AlexeyBrin on Saturday October 04, 2014 @10:16PM (#8411252)

Yes, Emscripten, basically takes C or C++ and compiles to JavaScript using LLVM.

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