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Basically all web languages compile/transpile* to JS since that's the only thing with wide support, at least until WASM is 100% equivalent.

What's your definition of transpiling and what are you looking for?

* I personally find the difference meaningless, lots of languages use intermediate compilation targets like C or JS or LLVM IR or assembly so transpiling and compiling mean the same thing to me

On the server-side, Deno is soon 1.0 and has native TypeScript support - no more transpiling

https://blog.logrocket.com/what-is-deno/

Deno still uses a TS to JS compiler internally, but it's transparent to the user.

Just adding as it might interest someone :)

I was wondering how soon and found the associated PR which was created today https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/5273

Deno transpiles the code for you. It is not a TypeScript compiler, but interprets/JIT compiles the generated javascript.

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