Well... Yes! Rhino is much less of a hack than Jython. And much
better supported!
P T Withington wrote:
Ha! After all the work I did to rip out Jython you want me to cast the compiler
back into another dynamic language?
On 2009-12-02, at 13:27, Max Carlson wrote:
I don't know about JVM vs JavaScriptCore/V8 performance. But I do know that
Rhino has a lot of overhead when moving stuff across the Java/JavaScript
divide, which may have been a pain point.
Last night I was fantasizing about embedding Rhino in the compiler so we could
hack the AST with something more dynamic than Java. Not sure how practical
that is, but it could be cool to play with when you're done with all the
compiler refactoring!
P T Withington wrote:
Which is kinda funny, since it is compiling to Java byte codes.
Does this mean that Javascript VM's are out-performing Java VM's these days?
On 2009-12-02, at 12:57, Max Carlson wrote:
Yeah, I believe the original webtop server used Rhino. Not sure why that was
scrapped in favor of 'Pure Java' - probably for performance. Rhino is no where
near some of the more modern JS engines in terms of performance...
P T Withington wrote:
They never would have slipped that by the Times editors!
I thought Adam's initial wt work used Javascript on the server?
On 2009-12-01, at 22:53, Henry Minsky wrote:
That is a thought-provoking article. And we do need some kind of a standard
module system...
I liked this quote
"In these post-QBasic times, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript have become for every
ungainly, bespectacled troglodyte the gateway from social exile to deeper
social exile."
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Max Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/12/commonjs-effort-sets-javascript-on-path-for-world-domination.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
Interesting! I'd love to be able to develop server-side code in
JavaScript. I was just chatting with a friend (and OL developer) the other
day about being able to describe server-side behavior as part of LZX, and
have part of the application run on the server and part on the client.
So many possibilities!
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