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In short, this is Babel by Google that runs with its own additional runtime?

Traceur has been around for years, much longer than Babel, it's a Google project but afaik it's mostly the work of one person

Traceur was the inspiration for Babel. Not the other way around.

Yep!

> We also presented Traceur at NodeConf 2011. The video is available on YouTube [1]