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Babel vs Emscripten: What are the differences?

What is Babel? Use next generation JavaScript, today. Babel will turn your ES6+ code into ES5 friendly code, so you can start using it right now without waiting for browser support.

What is Emscripten? An Open Source LLVM to JavaScript compiler. This allows applications and libraries originally designed to run as standard executables to be integrated into client side web applications.

Babel and Emscripten can be categorized as "JavaScript Compilers" tools.

Some of the features offered by Babel are:

Array comprehensions
Arrow functions
Async functions

On the other hand, Emscripten provides the following key features:

Compile C and C++ code into JavaScript
Compile any other code that can be translated into LLVM bitcode into JavaScript
Compile the C/C++ runtimes of other languages into JavaScript

Babel and Emscripten are both open source tools. It seems that Babel with 34.7K GitHub stars and 3.84K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Emscripten with 17.9K GitHub stars and 2.12K GitHub forks.

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What is Emscripten?

This allows applications and libraries originally designed to run as standard executables to be integrated into client side web applications.

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Webpack

A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

TypeScript

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

CoffeeScript

It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability. Specific additional features include list comprehension and de-structuring assignment.

ESLint

A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.

rollup

It is a module bundler for JavaScript which compiles small pieces of code into something larger and more complex, such as a library or application. It uses the new standardized format for code modules included in the ES6 revision of JavaScript, instead of previous idiosyncratic solutions such as CommonJS and AMD.

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