5. A LISP for the modern world.
Awesome for controlling complexity!
“Clojure is arguably simpler, more powerful
and more robust than JS.” — Rich Hickey
6. “JavaScript is assembly
language for the web.”
Scott Hanselman
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/JavaScriptIsAssemblyLanguageForTheWebSematicMarkupIsDeadCleanVsMachinecodedHTML.aspx
7. JavaScript == target language for other languages
CoffeeScript Coco Parsec CoffeeScript JS11 Kaffeine Jack move Narcissus
Traceur EcmaScript 5 Parser (es-lab) EcmaScript 5 Parser (qfox) reflect.js bdParse
parse-js Closure Compiler UglifyJS Caja ADsafe FBJS Jacaranda Microsoft
Web Sandbox Gatekeeper Dojo Secure SafeJS MileScript Mascara Roy
Streamline.js mobl StratifiedJS NarrativeJS jwacs Jscex TameJS
ContextJS Objective-J JS2 jangaroo Flapjax jLang Restrict Mode TIScript
HotRuby rb2js RubyJS Red Quby Opal 8ball PYXC-PJ Pyjamas Skulpt
PyCow PyvaScript GWT Java2Script j2js scalagwt jsc JSIL Script#
ClojureScript clojurejs ClojureScript EdgeLisp Fargo Moby Scheme nconc
Parenscript Ralph scheme2js Scriptjure Sibilant Spock Ocamljs O'Browser
Js_of_ocaml UHC YHC jshaskell Clamato Silver Smalltalk JTalk Lively
Kernel Emscripten mala Clue NS Basic/App Studio qb.js Haxe Fantom
LZX (Laszlo XML) Fun Ur WebSharper mobl E Sugar Opa Waterbear
JsMorphic ScriptBlocks Oia Quixe Gnusto Logo Interpreter p2js
OMG
Reb2Static RPN phype OP4JS jison OMeta/JS PEG.js languagejs Canopy
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JS/CC jsparse ReParse p4js JSGLR antlr Cruiser.Parse Closure Compiler
the JV
burrito javascript types altJS jswiki e
AST Documentation Spidermonkey Parser API JsonML AST treehugger JavaScript Shaper
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https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS