Traceur – A JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler

There are only 4 commits since the last release 6 months ago, and most of the commits are from two authors. This doesn't look like a healthy active project.

Seems like grandfather of babel. Why would anyone use it, when babel has moved miles forward?

I guess Google put more effort into TypeScript, this project seems like it's almost dead.

In short, this is Babel by Google that runs with its own additional runtime?

Traceur doesn't use semver. I've used it for a while, but frequent breakages were annoying. Having to lock it down to an ageing version and being afraid to update it is a liability.

Adding "Traceur" in the title would make this more clear. It's an old project, and, I believe, mostly forgotten.

I actually assumed the link was a new announcement.