Alternatives to JS in the browser: your experience [closed]

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Published on 2012-03-21T09:29:38Z Indexed on 2012/03/21 11:38 UTC
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In these days there are many projects whose aim is to bring new languages to the browser by compiling them to JavaScript. Among the others one can mention ClojureScript, CoffeScript, Dart, haXe, Emscripten, Amber Smalltalk.

I understand that in part the response to this answer depends on the particular project. But, anyway:

Have you tried any of them? Are these tentatives suitable for production sites? Should I want to try one of those, what are the downsides I should carefully evaluate?

By the way, I expect the answer to be slightly misleading for CoffeeScript, since its semantics is very close to that of JavaScript, so I guess it should be easier to make it work seamlessly with the existing JavaScript ecosystem.

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