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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.
Pros of Babel
- Modern Javascript works with all browsers165
- Open source77
- Integration with lots of tools60
- Easy setup56
- Very active on github26
- JSX2
- Love2
- Source maps2
- Extensions1
Pros of Emscripten
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