Hi all, Thanks for the replies. Based on the feedback here, we've decided to host our branch of WebKit at: http://src.chromium.org/multivm/trunk/webkit.
We'll use this branch to try to address the technical and maintenance issues you've brought up. Cheers, Anton, Pavel, and Vijay On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Vijay Menon <v...@google.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Many languages compile to JavaScript today to run on the web. As > alternative, we’ve been experimenting with enabling different language > runtimes in WebKit to run in web pages alongside JavaScript. > > This could be used to support languages like Python, Java, Ruby, Lua, or - > what inspired us - Dart (www.dartlang.org). > > Some reasons to consider additional runtimes include: > > - Speed. Many languages are faster than JavaScript when run natively > and/or do not compile to JavaScript efficiently. > - Developer choice. Another runtime provides developers with more choice > without requiring them to use a toolchain. > - Development experience. Languages supported directly in the browser can > have a significantly better debugging and profiling experience than they > can with compiled code. > > We have a quite early patch of this work available here: > > - multi-vm changes: http://codereview.chromium.org/8806015/ > - dart bindings: http://codereview.chromium.org/8802010/ > > We’re planning to create a multi-vm branch on webkit.org to experiment > with this idea. Our goal with this branch is to (a) demonstrate the above > points and (b) show that we can do this without degrading JavaScript > performance or the WebKit development experience. If successful, we’d like > to submit these changes to WebKit trunk. We welcome your feedback. > > Regards, > > Anton Muhin > Pavel Podivilov > Vijay Menon > >
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