How can I make a http request
Once you local js = require "js" you have direct access to the JS global object, so you can...
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#12I’d love a “how’s it work” section. From what I gather, it’s not wasm or anything; rather, it’s transpiling lua to JS at runtime. Is that right?
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#13After I found fennel-lang I thought "all I need now is a browser that runs Lua" and now here we are, I hope they work together well. Thanks for this OP
No wokkas.
I found this today after following back to Fennel (for probably the 10th time hehe) from the recent Fullmoon post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30385759) by thinking "what if I use Fennel instead of Lua-proper there?".
I then checked out the Fennel Wiki (https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel/wiki) where you'll spy a link to Fengari. Maybe that trail of breadcrumbs helps you find more things you might be interested in.
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#14And then we can have Ferengi - COBOL for the Browser
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#15I’d love a “how’s it work” section. From what I gather, it’s not wasm or anything; rather, it’s transpiling lua to JS at runtime. Is that right?
According to the description, a minimal glance at the code and this [0], no, that's not it.
It is "the Lua VM written in JavaScript" and "largely a port of the PUC-Rio C implementation of Lua". It runs the Lua code on that VM, so there's no transpilation.
[0] https://hackernoon.com/why-we-rewrote-lua-in-js-a66529a8278d
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#16And then we can have Ferengi - COBOL for the Browser
It’s cobweb actually - https://github.com/cloudflare/cobweb
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#17So this is a scripting language on top of a scripting language? It's a bit sad.
The idea is cool, but why wasn't it implemented w/ wasm?
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#18For those looking for powerful async coroutines in the browser: The combination of typescript+redux+redux-saga is also quite powerful. Redux-saga uses generator coroutines to handle all sorts of asynchronous tasks.
I think you can do anything in Redux Saga without either Redux or React.
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#20And then we can have Ferengi - COBOL for the Browser
This reminded me to check on python in the browser https://brython.info/ - looks like both projects are fairly active which is nice to see.