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List of languages that compile to python

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https://github.com/vindarel/languages-that-compile-to-python

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The realities of the browser platform have indeed created a unique environment where many nice languages have appeared that compile to JS. Besides TypeScript there's Elm, ReasonML, ClojureScript, and many more.

There are a some competing languages for the Python runtime as well: https://github.com/vindarel/languages-that-compile-to-python
Haskell language features and standard libraries in pure Python | Sep 2020
More, not entirely related projects

https://github.com/vindarel/languages-that-compile-to-python

One million lines of code ought to be enough for anybody | Dec 2019
List of languages that compile to python:

https://github.com/vindarel/languages-that-compile-to-python

This change is almost guaranteed to break most of these.

What’s New in Python 3.8 | Oct 2019
> Over complicating a language with rarely-used features can definitely create problems.

Agreed.

There's a number of (full) languages that compile to the Python AST [0] (I'm especially fond of http://hylang.org), but they're very different from Python. It would be interesting to see smaller variations of standard Python implemented in an interoperable way like these languages do.

[0] https://github.com/vindarel/languages-that-compile-to-python