Traceur – A JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
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Re: Traceur – A JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
#2In short, this is Babel by Google that runs with its own additional runtime?
Re: Traceur – A JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
#3In short, this is Babel by Google that runs with its own additional runtime?
Traceur has been around for years, much longer than Babel, it's a Google project but afaik it's mostly the work of one person
Re: Traceur – A JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
#4There are only 4 commits since the last release 6 months ago, and most of the commits are from two authors. This doesn't look like a healthy active project.
Re: Traceur – A JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
#5In short, this is Babel by Google that runs with its own additional runtime?
Traceur was the inspiration for Babel. Not the other way around.
Re: Traceur – A JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
#6Traceur doesn't use semver. I've used it for a while, but frequent breakages were annoying. Having to lock it down to an ageing version and being afraid to update it is a liability.
Re: Traceur – A JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
#7Seems like grandfather of babel. Why would anyone use it, when babel has moved miles forward?
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Re: Traceur – A JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
#9I guess Google put more effort into TypeScript, this project seems like it's almost dead.
Re: Traceur – A JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
#10In short, this is Babel by Google that runs with its own additional runtime?
Traceur was the inspiration for Babel. Not the other way around.
Yep!
> We also presented Traceur at NodeConf 2011. The video is available on YouTube [1]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nt...