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There's ActionScript, which can only be interpreted.
Hm. I thought Flash has bytecode rather than ActionScript being plain interpreted.
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A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
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Re: A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
#42Nice visualization, it can be improved though. There are Java compilers directly to native code though, the Oracle JVM isn't the only path.
> There are Java compilers directly to native code though
Dude, if there was some kind of wiki documenting HN lore, there would have to be a page on you drilling this fact into our skulls for years on end! :)
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=java%20native%20pjmlp&sort=byP...
Re: A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
#43Where is Pascal?
it's there, bottom left
Re: A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
#44It says V8 compiles JavaScript to Machine Code, but is that really correct given that the machine code is an intermediate product, and the result of applying a JIT to a specialized piece of code (where part of the variables are already known to the compiler)?
Re: A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
#4544 languages 42 languages compile to Machine Code Wait, what? There are 2 languages that don't compile to Machine Code? Which ones are those, and how is it even possible?
Compilation is the act of generating a back-end code. Most languages compile to Machine Code, but you could also compile to some other language like C, Haskell, Javascript that you know has a very well-optimized compiler. Say, if you generate C code, and do it well, you know that your language will be almost as fast as C.
Re: A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
#46So, you can apparently compile C++ to LLVM-IR, then to Javascript, then to Python and then to C++ (you can do similar feat with C). Wonder if there is a fix point, or it diverges.
Like when you auto-translate English -> Japanese -> English. Very unlikely you will recover the original
Good fun though.
Re: A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
#47g++ can turn c++ to assembly
Re: A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
#48Where is php -> c# through peachpie? Pretty significant project
Re: A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
#49Where is Pascal?
It's there. Albeit only the Free Pascal compiler
Re: A graph of programming languages connected through compilers
#50Where is Smalltalk ?
and Forth and Erlang