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It's a tragedy when you think about how many millions (billions?) of man hours have been wasted on javascript because it's the only native scripting language of
by Hammershaft 2y ago
It's a tragedy when you think about how many millions (billions?) of man hours have been wasted on javascript because it's the only native scripting language of the browser. Even more tragic is that the original plan was to make scheme the language of the browser.
- nanomonkey 2y agoWell, now you can compile scheme to run on the browser with Hoot (Guile scheme to WASM): https://spritely.institute/hoot/ https://spritely.institute/hoot/
- shawn_w 2y agoThere's an experimental Racket to JavaScript compiler too: https://docs.racket-lang.org/racketscript/index.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/racketscript/index.html Ooo, there's more: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS#scheme-like https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...