re: Javascript needs competition on the front end. Thoughts? VIEW POST

re: But now they can go and use Elm, Purescript, ReasonML... or maybe something else.

These languages compiled back to Javascript, just like Typescript. I don't see the point to use something else then ES2018 + Flow + Babel or Typescript + Babel. At the end of the day, all of those important type safety features or syntactic sugar will be stripped out from your code, leaving only a major browser compatible, old standard javascript with slightly optimized code.

Actually, there's somewhere a Flow library (sorry, I forget the name), which compiles to client side as well, to not strip out the type checking on the client side (I don't know unfortunately, Elm, Purescript or ReasonML have such feature).

Having another W3C standard language on the client side means that the browsers implement it's VM to execute, meaning don't have to transpile back to Javascript.

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