Reminds me a bit of efforts like C--, which sought to seek a simpler pseudo-assembly used as some kind of intermediate language for compilers. But those efforts never gained much traction, whereas I think that some transpilers actually exploited a few features beyond even normal, full-fleged C -- namely GCC extensions -- to make some features easier and/or faster (it's been a while, but it was probably some trampolining optimization).
Let's see how it turns out.
As for something completely different, I've always wondered how it would be to program a webapp in a rather different language than JS -- most transpiled languages aren't that fundamentally different from JS. And Emscripten seems mostly used to port some code that "runs in a box". Wonder how far one could come doing some stereotypically Web 2.0 things in e.g. Pascal.
Elm and Roy are quite different in that they abandon normal js semantics.. as far as going to a more blub language, please do report your experimental results!
If C-- had been a subset of C, then it would be more comparable. Having immediate compatibility with existing implementations makes adoption vastly easier.
Let's see how it turns out.
As for something completely different, I've always wondered how it would be to program a webapp in a rather different language than JS -- most transpiled languages aren't that fundamentally different from JS. And Emscripten seems mostly used to port some code that "runs in a box". Wonder how far one could come doing some stereotypically Web 2.0 things in e.g. Pascal.