I have to disagree. Adding another layer of abstraction cannot reduce complexity, although it might make certain tasks easier. Consider assembly vs C as an example: C can make lots of programming tasks way easier, but the complexity of the system is not reduced.
With C, this becomes apparent when the program segfaults. A garbage-collected language or Rust can prevent segfaults using a subsystem to manage and/or enforce memory ownership, again making lots of tasks easier, while adding even more complexity.
In the case of transpile-to-JS languages, these can fix many of the shortcomings of JS and make lots of tasks easier, but they are a more complex system which can cause additional work if the generated code fails at run time, and the browser debugger brings up something completely different from your source code.
Your point that we will see more transpiled languages in the future makes sense.
I can see where it will reduce code complexity while upping stack complexity.
You're right that it's not always less complex. Trying to trace an error through some of these systems is ridiculous. I miss the days of it just pointing to a line number.
I have to disagree. Adding another layer of abstraction cannot reduce complexity, although it might make certain tasks easier. Consider assembly vs C as an example: C can make lots of programming tasks way easier, but the complexity of the system is not reduced.
With C, this becomes apparent when the program segfaults. A garbage-collected language or Rust can prevent segfaults using a subsystem to manage and/or enforce memory ownership, again making lots of tasks easier, while adding even more complexity.
In the case of transpile-to-JS languages, these can fix many of the shortcomings of JS and make lots of tasks easier, but they are a more complex system which can cause additional work if the generated code fails at run time, and the browser debugger brings up something completely different from your source code.
Your point that we will see more transpiled languages in the future makes sense.