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Re:The Two Pillars of JavaScript: Part 1: How to Escape the ... by hcarvalhoalves on Saturday December 13, 2014 @09:32AM (#8745235)
> You can make any language available in a script block and have it interpreted using a polyfill. If JS sucked as bad as some people think, this would have taken off - it hasn't.

That's not trivial.

People are cross compiling to javascript as part of a build process though, so you're wrong that it hasn't taken off. Coffescript, Typescript, ClojureScript, Elm, etc.

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...

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Re:The Two Pillars of JavaScript: Part 1: How to Escape the ... by coldtea on Saturday December 13, 2014 @10:38AM (#8745362)
Taken off = more than very few than use Coffescript et al.

Clojure itself barely registers in language popularity indexes -- much less Clojurescript.

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