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On the one hand, adding to standard browser engines support for multiple scripting languages, instead of just Javascript, is a cool idea, and something that pro
by kyllo 14y ago
On the one hand, adding to standard browser engines support for multiple scripting languages, instead of just Javascript, is a cool idea, and something that probably should have happened a long time ago.
On the other hand, the fact that this currently requires the user to install it first, seems to make it less portable than a compile-to-JS solution like Opal (http://opalrb.org/ http://opalrb.org/). At least until standard support for multiple scripting languages actually does get introduced to browser engines.
Cool project, regardless!
- kkowalczyk 14y agoIt did happen long time. It just died because of lack of adoption. <script> tag has a type attribute. IE used to (still does?) support Visual Basic as a script. See http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/vbscript_howto.asp http://www.w3schools.com/vbscript/vbscript_howto.asp But even the combined might of IE and Microsoft (that was long time ago, when Microsoft and IE were mighty) couldn't get it broadly adopted so it's effectively dead.
- christiangenco 14y agoI agree, and was also going to bring up the Opal solution. Ideally, browsers would expose some kind of assembly-level language and you could define your own interpreter.