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I turned JS into a compiled language (for fun and Wasm)

I turned JS into a compiled language (for fun and Wasm) — surma.dev.
This is one of those times where I got so fascinated by the idea of a thing
that I forgot to ask myself whether it’s a good idea to build the thing. The
idea being, transpiling JavaScript to C++ so I can compile that to whatever
I need.

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