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		edtechdev on March 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: LiteScript "taken most seriously by those JavaScript programmers who have absolutely no experience whatsoever" You mean like those at Google (dart), Microsoft (typescript), Mozilla (asm.js) and the developers of dozens of other languages that compile to javascript, I guess: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...

Pacabel on March 9, 2014 [–]

Implementing one high-level language (CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc.) via translation to another high-level language (JavaScript) does not make the target language an "assembly language" in any sense.

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