On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Nicholas Leippe <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't forget Clojurescript--all the power of clojure compiled into es5 > javascript. Very interesting IMO.
At this point, there are few interesting languages that *don't* have a compiler that targets javascript. And even then, if they run via an interpreter, you can compile the interpreter to javascript via emscripten. I did a presentation on lua that had HTML slides with a live lua REPL in them running in the browser via emscripten or something like it. So, although Clojurescript is cool, it wasn't anywhere near the first language to compile to javascript. There are even a bunch of languages that started their life as compilers targeting javascript, such as coffeescript, TypeScript, Roy, Elm, etc. Here's a large but probably incomplete list: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS I would bet that Javascript is by far the language with the most widely installed development system and runtime environment now. It's kind of insane, but the world works in funny ways sometimes. --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
