List of languages that compile to JS

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Post by gaoprea » Wed, Jan 15, 2014, 9:13 PM UTC

List of languages that compile to JS
github.com

Re: List of languages that compile to JS

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Post by kreek » Wed, Jan 15, 2014, 9:50 PM UTC

I was going to make snarky comment about writing JavaScript in JavaScript until I saw the language extensions section, very useful!

Re: List of languages that compile to JS

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Post by joemaller1 » Wed, Jan 15, 2014, 9:53 PM UTC

And I expect most of these can be compiled via a Grunt task. JavaScript is the Borg.

Re: List of languages that compile to JS

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Post by saurik » Wed, Jan 15, 2014, 10:02 PM UTC

This seems to be a "gave up on website, replaced with GitHub" version of altjs.org (which now rediects here). (This website used to have Cycript listed, but now doesn't.)

Re: List of languages that compile to JS

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Post by jashkenas » Wed, Jan 15, 2014, 10:04 PM UTC

saurik wrote: post #4

This seems to be a "gave up on website, replaced with GitHub" version of altjs.org (which now rediects here). (This website used to have Cycript listed, but now doesn't.)

Interesting historical note — AltJS.org was originally taken from a version of this page, and then forked off from there.

Re: List of languages that compile to JS

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Post by zem » Wed, Jan 15, 2014, 10:11 PM UTC

if you're interested in the topic, altjs.reddit.com could use some love

Re: List of languages that compile to JS

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Post by gordonguthrie » Wed, Jan 15, 2014, 10:14 PM UTC

Boy am I glad I added LuvvieScript (Erlang dialect) to it last week. Its sits a bit lonely, the last transpile-to-javascript language to come in. Robert Virding of Lisp-Flavoured-Erlang pointed out that once I get it working all the other compile-to-Erlang languages (Elixir, LFE, Joxa) will also run in the browser (so no pressure then).

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Post by parallelist » Wed, Jan 15, 2014, 10:19 PM UTC

Can’t believe how long this list is. Would be great to have some kind of maturity rating system for each item.

Re: List of languages that compile to JS

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Post by Fasebook » Wed, Jan 15, 2014, 10:26 PM UTC

This shows us how useful JS really is.

Re: List of languages that compile to JS

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Post by gaoprea » Wed, Jan 15, 2014, 10:43 PM UTC

I expect an increasingly larger C/C++ codebase to be ported with emscripten and asm.js with decent enough performance (especially dev tools). Currently C++ code compiled with emscripten runs in Firefox only 1.5x slower than natively compiled code [1]. Notable ports can be found at emscripten wiki page [2].

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/gap-between-asm-js-and-nat...

[2] https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki