Kovid Goyal

It's hard for me to get a good sense of what's needed, as the current rs-ng infrastructure fully meets my needs. The most basic elements of a packaging system are:...

If you need any additional API in the embedded compiler to facilitate your use case, let me know and I'll take a look. It's not clear to me what exactly...

Personally, I have no problems reading the transpiled JS that RS produces, so I have no motivation to implemnt map files. But certainly in principle they could be implemented. But...

All ast elements in RS contain line and column information for use in error messages, should not be hard to translate that into map files.

Well, this option is a bit of a hack, inherited from the original rapydscript. I recommend not using it and instead passing the js through any ordinary JS minifier. I'll...

Not something I care about, but patches are welcome.

You are welcome to send a patch for it, I never use non-native compilers for platforms that have native compilers.

I prefer syntax errors, which are easy to detect and fix at compile time, over runtime behavior that may or may not do what is expected.

... is not a statement in python, its an expression that expression that evaluates to the Ellipsis object, just like None evaluates to the None object.

Ah, I see, yes that's true. But why? Why allow ellipsis in one context and not in lots of others? Seems fairly arbitrary.