I found this in the comments to the blog post - Topaz, a REBOL inspired (but not compatible) language which compiles to javascript[1]. I found it worthy of it's own submission[2] with more info.

[1] http://www.colellachiara.com/soft/topaz/try-topaz.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4492952