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I'm 100% ready to jump ship there. I would rather work at a shop that does any other language besides Javascript for web guis even with more than a decade of js dev under my belt. The problem is they are impossible to find.



> The problem is they are impossible to find.

Scala.js[0], GHCJS[1], and Js_of_ocaml[2] among others.

[0] http://www.scala-js.org/

[1] https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs

[2] http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/


Languages that compile to JS are plentiful; shops that use those languages are much less so (with the possible exception of coffeescript).


I believe smrtinsert is referring to places that you could work at to write those languages, not that the languages themselves are impossible to find. I don't know if anyone is actually being paid by someone else to write ScalaJS, GHCHS and/or Js_of_ocaml.


> places that you could work at to write those languages

Ah, missed that, assumed OP meant if only there was a way to write JS without having to write JS.


There are some end to end Clojure shops. Pretty sure Relevance uses cljs.




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