Ahead-of-time JavaScript compiler

&gt; It is not expected that the performance of compiled applications will ever rival &#x27;v8&#x27;. JavaScript is an awful language for static compilation - it almost seems designed to foil any attempts at optimization, and so a JIT will always have a significant performance advantage.<p>For the compiler un-initiated such as myself, is there a simplified explanation for why static compilation is inferior to JIT for languages like javascript?

Weird that the label specifies &quot;ahead of time&quot;, which is implicit in &quot;compiler&quot;, but does not mention that it is a Javascript-to-C++ translator rather than a normal machine-code-producing compiler.

<p><pre><code> Transition the runtime to C [from C++] </code></pre> Wondering why? I thought C++ and C are comparable in speed.

It was only a matter of time before someone did this. Did it really take this long?

but does the output compile with emscripten?