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I don't think equating languages that compile to javascript with C++ improves the analogy all that much. If anything a better analog would be a language that compiles to C like Chicken Scheme or Vala.

I also don't think that comparing one's language to C++ is necessarily a good way to advertise it. ;)

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The first C++ (at that time "C with Classes") compiler, cfront, compiled to C code.

but that's a looong time ago.

That's the point. Languages lining up to become the C++ of the web is actually a better way of looking at the field.

No it's not. There are a bunch of language implementations that compile to C, with semantics nothing like C++. Just as there are a bunch of language implementations that compile to JS but have semantics that differ from JS or whatever "JS++" would be.

...My point being that JS++ would be repeating the mistakes of C++.

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