[erlang-questions] JavaScript compiler for Erlang

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Thu Jul 12 02:27:31 CEST 2007


There is a great paper by Florian Loitsch where he attempted to translate
javascript to scheme. The performance was actually better than most
javascript implementations. I don't think that he had 100% language
compatability, but it should be a great start for a JS -> Erlang project.


On 7/10/07, Robert Virding <robert.virding@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Joel Reymont wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > Is Erlang a good platform to compile JavaScript to?
> >
> > Just gathering opinions.
> >
> >       Thanks, Joel
> >
> > --
> > http://topdog.cc      - EasyLanguage to C# compiler
> > http://wagerlabs.com  - Blog
>
> Yes, I think Erlang would be a good platform to compile JavaScript to. I
> have been thinking about how to do a PHP implementation and arrived at
> the same conclusion. The main difficulties would be the large libraires
> and the rather crappy syntax and semantics (of PHP).
>
> Robert
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