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0 pointsDoesntMatter223y ago0 comments

You are assuming people use Opal because they don't want to learn JS. In reality it's that JS is a very messy language compared to ruby.

You can be a lot more productive if you avoid JS entirely.

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1337shadow3y ago

Absolutely agreed, hence the many Python to JS transpilers out there.

https://transcrypt.org https://yourlabs.io/oss/ryzom#javascript https://github.com/am230/py2js

We get so much satisfaction out of writing JS in Python, it's worth all the IDEs in the world for us!

ativzzz3y ago

JS is a totally fine language. The entire browser ecosystem makes JS an incredible productive language for working on the web. You can disagree if you don't like the language personally but that doesn't change the fact JS gets the job done

DoesntMatter22OP3y ago

"incredible productive language for working on the web"

You can disagree if you want but that doesn't change the fact that JS is a huge pain in the neck to get the job done with.

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