You can also use C++, Java, Kotlin, C#, or almost any popular language. Compiling to JS is not an innovation its a hack and a testament to how terrible the language and ecosystem is.
I believe 'gcc -S' would demonstrate not. If my understanding is correct, it produces essentially asm internally regardless of that flag, but subsequently assembles and links it without presenting it externally, -S just makes it stop and dump the asm.
No idea about other C compilers, but it wouldn't surprise me if they have some similar feature.
In addition to being wrong, the parent's point is also incredibly nitpicky.
So common that it is unclear to me which of producing textual asm output or machine code is most common. Certainly there's been periods were the attitude was that producing machine code directly was unnecessarily complex and didn't belong in the compiler.
Why you have such intense and strong feeling toward a programming language?
It's just a programming language after all, nothing more nothing less
You're very much the one with the "strong feelings" there, accusing "intellectual laziness" for not putting real efforts in a language which is simply not worth anyone's time - not to mention assuming that people who think the language is inferior actually use it.
As I said, it's a productivity decision. The opposite of laziness.
If you wanna do any consumer facing web stuff, you gotta code in js in one way or another. So, if you don't do any web stuff that's fine but other people doing any serious front or back end web stuff have to master the language to get the maximum out of their work.
Anyway, good luck with your darling langs
You're 0 for 3, yet you're still acting smug. I'd take a look into that if I were you. Take this as general advice.
Edit: I saw your comment below - I'm done replying to you directly, you're probably not a troll, but it's sad that you behave like one.
You seem very agitated and disturbed for no apparent reason. We're discussing prog langs after all. Maybe you need to explore sports or politics to vent your anger as it's building up and you might explode anytime :L: