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Indeed, they don't go as far as some of the other ones, but it's still a language that compiles down to JS. It's nice that it's a strict superset of JS (iirc anyway) but that alone doesn't mean that it's impossible to produce slow or bloated JS.

Of course any language that does a lot more than CS is going to be slower, e.g. Objective-J's object system providing method-missing functionality and a whack of other features not found natively in JS.



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