[erlang-questions] JavaScript compiler for Erlang

[Robert Virding]

With the garbage collector of course! Sorry couldn't resist that. :-)

I am in no way a js guru. How fine are js objects? I know Erlang 
processes are lightweight but are they lightweight enough? Would you get 
problems with implicit/explicit sequentiality in js? Otherwise just keep 
them in a table.

Still thinking about doing PHP, there are an awful lot of applications.

Someone asked earlier which versions we are thinking about. At this 
stage I would say the latest version for which I can get a decent 
description of the language and main libraries. It doesn't matter that 
much until you get users who would actually want to use it.

Robert

David Mercer wrote:
> Also, how would you handle garbage collection of the Javascript objects?
> 
> DBM
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Mercer [mailto:dmercer@REDACTED] 
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 09:40
> To: 'erlang-questions@REDACTED'
> Subject: RE: [erlang-questions] JavaScript compiler for Erlang
> 
> Joe Armstrong wrote:
>> The difficulty of wring an interpretor seems mainly to do with getting
>> an accurate
>> parse tree of the js source into Erlang - the interpretor should be pretty
> easy.
> 
> So, for me, who is new to Erlang and thought about it on my drive home last
> Friday, is this the right approach to the implementation: have a separate
> process for each object and lexical environment.  An object is then
> represented as a PID, and requests for properties and methods (which are
> basically the same in Javascript), would send a message to the process,
> which would return the appropriate value (which may also be an object/PID)
> or function.  Nested lexical environments (e.g., with blocks, function
> blocks, and the global environment), therefore, can send forward a request
> to their higher level if the value is not found in their environment.
> 
> Am I on the right track?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David
> 
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