So where do things stand on this concept of Julia and Javascript 
interaction?  

Stefan in this thread hints at its potential if it were possible to use 
LLVM to compile itself.  That seems to have been done (LLVM.js) and the 
thread 
here<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/julia-users/ht74iv40zD0/iqV8jPFh4b8J>refers
 to that.  

So I'm confused.  On the one hand, I have Javascript and the browser, _the_ 
most common GUI on the planet.  And JS does all the whiz bang graphics you 
could want, people seem to be making really decent IDE's with it, it's 
totally web compatible and complete with nodejs giving file access and 
server functionality.  But JS/Node sucks at number crunching.  On the other 
hand I have Julia, pretty much my go to replacement for Matlab (I've tried 
Octave, Scilab, etc. and Julia is _it_ ).  And yet, there is still really 
no great GUI or graphics.  I think:

a) why can't Julia be the number crunching engine that Javascript lacks, 
and JS the foundation for the graphics and GUI Julia lacks; or
b) could there be a Julia.js in the same way that Processing 
<http://www.processing.org>has ProcessingJS <http://www.processingjs.org>.

So why can't either or both of those things happen?  I see this 
<http://acko.net/tag/mathbox/>and think Julia should be the engine driving 
that train.

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