[erlang-questions] JavaScript compiler for Erlang

[Bob Ippolito]

It seems like it would be practical to allow users of a large Erlang
system to write things like business rules or game logic in
JavaScript... basically for the same reasons people use Rhino in Java.

I think compiling Erlang to JavaScript is less practical because
debugging JavaScript is hard enough as it is, since the VMs are all
broken in slightly different ways...

-bob

On 7/13/07, David Mercer <dmercer@REDACTED> wrote:
> True, it is quite annoying to have to code AJAX with event handlers as
> opposed to just writing code linearly as you would in Erlang.  That,
> however, would justify compiling Erlang to Javascript, instead of vice
> cersa, so you can write your code in Erlang but distribute it to browsers in
> a language they understand.
>
> So my question stands: other than for intellectual edification, why would
> you compile Javascript to Erlang?  I'm not asking rhetorically; I'm hoping
> the answer will cause me to think about it on my drive home this evening...
>
> David
>
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>
> > being said, since most Javascript development is done for the browser,
> > concurrent programming isn't as big an issue for most Javascript
> > programmers, ...
>
> that's changing: most interactive environments are concurrent environments,
> although the support
> for it in Javascript seems dismal.  (but then, it's dismal in most windowing
> systems, too.)
> that seems to force slightly unusual approaches
> (but those might anyway be interesting in themselves), such as:
>
> MapJAX: Data Structure Abstractions for Asynchronous Web Applications
> http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix07/tech/myers.html
>
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