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Assembly Language for the Web
- tlrobinson 18y agoUsually when people refer to "assembly language for the web" they're talking about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as the building blocks for higher abstractions. These guys took the phrase a bit more literally.
- tptacek 18y agoPeople should take that "assembly language" quip more seriously. Why are we still writing raw CSS?
- tlrobinson 18y agoWe (http://280slides.com http://280slides.com) have zero CSS, zero HTML (excluding the loading screen and landing page)
- 0x44 18y agoWhat are you using to generate your HTML and CSS? Haml and Sass or something else?
- tlrobinson 18y agoNo, not even generated HTML or CSS. HAML and SASS seem to provide a very thin abstraction; you're still basically writing HTML and CSS. Our JavaScript framework builds everything via the DOM. But our application code doesn't touch the DOM either, it's all abstracted.
- 0x44 18y agoIs that a public framework, or something that you guys wrote internally?
- delano 18y agoI don't know whether to laugh, cry, or hurl.
- olavk 18y agoThis guy http://timhatch.com/projects/jsassembly/index.html http://timhatch.com/projects/jsassembly/index.html implemented an x86 assembly interpreter in JavaScript that runs in the browser.
- kobs 18y agoI've seen a couple of similar projecs out there (mainly MIPS). I started writing one for MIPS when I was taking a computer architecture course so that I didn't have to install SPIM, but eventually lost interest. That is pretty neat, though.
- bkovitz 18y agoHaaaaa!!!!!!! This is the greatest use of technology ever!
- pageman 18y agosomeone should code a wiki using this ... :P
- kashif 18y agosomeone would rather die ;)
- okeumeni 18y agoWhat a waste of time! I'm forced to say.