> On Mar 16, 2016, at 5:56 AM, Daniel Prager <daniel.a.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Awesomely, Jens has been working on Urlang: a Racket-ish syntax for 
> JavaScript, using the nanopass compiler infrastructure:
> 
> https://github.com/soegaard/urlang

Looks very cool. I’ll use this the next time I write JS code.

Thanks!

John

> 
> and more ambitiously, a Racket (subset) ->JavaScript compiler (rjs), taking a 
> distinct approach from Whalesong.
> 
> * * *
> 
> Just using plain Urlang together with sxml, Bootstrap (for css), and notably 
> Ractive.js for templating and data-binding I made the following demo / 
> proof-of-concept:
> 
> http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/danprager/urlang/blob/master/urlang-examples/ractive/ractive-bootstrap-example.html
> 
> Note: no heavyweight js runtime required: actually no runtime at all.
> 
> 
> Racket source: 
> https://github.com/danprager/urlang/blob/master/urlang-examples/ractive/ractive-bootstrap-example.rkt
> 
> HTML output (including embedded JavaScript): 
> https://github.com/danprager/urlang/blob/master/urlang-examples/ractive/ractive-bootstrap-example.html
> 
> The abstractions are a bit leaky, but I'm quietly excited about where this 
> sort of approach could lead.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
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