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AltJS - A list of compile-to-JavaScript languages

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Post by toni » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 8:44 AM UTC

AltJS - A list of compile-to-JavaScript languages
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Re: AltJS - A list of compile-to-JavaScript languages

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Post by johanx » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 10:19 AM UTC

Although somewhat newer, TypeScript ( http://www.typescriptlang.org/) is not included.

Re: AltJS - A list of compile-to-JavaScript languages

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Post by balakk » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 10:37 AM UTC

johanx wrote: post #2

Although somewhat newer, TypeScript ( http://www.typescriptlang.org/ ) is not included.

A more recent addition - Funscript(F# to JS)

https://github.com/ZachBray/FunScript/

Re: AltJS - A list of compile-to-JavaScript languages

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Post by ch0wn » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 10:38 AM UTC

johanx wrote: post #2

Although somewhat newer, TypeScript ( http://www.typescriptlang.org/ ) is not included.

Also one of my personal favorites, Fay, is missing: http://fay-lang.org/

Re: AltJS - A list of compile-to-JavaScript languages

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Post by nickzoic » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 11:14 AM UTC

Do any of these languages solve the debugging problem?

I'd love to write my client-side code in something other than JS, but I'd still be debugging it in JS, and I have trouble believing that's going to help ...

Re: AltJS - A list of compile-to-JavaScript languages

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Post by iso-8859-1 » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 11:22 AM UTC

nickzoic wrote: post #5

Do any of these languages solve the debugging problem? I'd love to write my client-side code in something other than JS, but I'd still be debugging it in JS, and I have trouble believing that's going to help ...

That's what Source Maps are for. Currently supported in a superset of {CoffeeScript, TypeScript and GWT}.

Re: AltJS - A list of compile-to-JavaScript languages

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Post by iso-8859-1 » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 11:24 AM UTC

johanx wrote: post #2

Although somewhat newer, TypeScript ( http://www.typescriptlang.org/ ) is not included.

Also missing http://www.saltarelle-compiler.com/

Re: AltJS - A list of compile-to-JavaScript languages

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Post by pjmlp » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 12:18 PM UTC

iso-8859-1 wrote: post #6

nickzoic wrote: post #5

Do any of these languages solve the debugging problem? I'd love to write my client-side code in something other than JS, but I'd still be debugging it in JS, and I have trouble believing that's going to help ...

That's what Source Maps are for. Currently supported in a superset of {CoffeeScript, TypeScript and GWT}.

Sadly very few browsers support them.

Re: AltJS - A list of compile-to-JavaScript languages

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Post by jQueryIsAwesome » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 12:32 PM UTC

johanx wrote: post #2

Although somewhat newer, TypeScript ( http://www.typescriptlang.org/ ) is not included.

Wish is weird, because they copy pasted from the list of Jash Kenas where it is included: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

Re: AltJS - A list of compile-to-JavaScript languages

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Post by detst » Mon, Nov 26, 2012, 12:55 PM UTC

nickzoic wrote: post #5

Do any of these languages solve the debugging problem? I'd love to write my client-side code in something other than JS, but I'd still be debugging it in JS, and I have trouble believing that's going to help ...

Dart. You debug in Dart and it's (generally) considered a bug if the generated JS deviates in behavior. The JS is rather readable, if needed. It also runs server-side.