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The idea is to embrace the JS world to the max and not reinvent any wheels. So Transcrypt will cooperate with any existing JS lib. Only personal I code far more efficiently in Python, especially for bigger apps. But (as is elaborated in the docs) that's personal. I've coded quite complicated technical web apps in JS, but somehow it didn't fit me like Python does. For different people that will be different, I guess.

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I agree with you as to the language (I just like Python a whole lot better than JS), but I always feel dirty writing in a non-native language, not to mention the pretty big commitment one makes when choosing a transpiler.

In Transcrypt's case, the commitment probably isn't that big, since the JS source is pretty readable (and so I can just migrate to that relatively easily if I want to), but it's still a bit of a hack.

That said, it looks like a great project, and I'll definitely give it a try and hopefully use it more widely.

Commitment will require continuity, so in the long run I want it to be independent of me, except for technical input. I plan transfer it to a foundation in a few years. At the same time I'd like to keep a firm hand on the wheel to keep it lean and focused. As for the 'hack' part: I am rather old... And I remember very lively people thought Kernighan and Ritchie C was a hack to avoid programming directly for a processor using a macro assembler.

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