This is very cool and I hope this idea spreads to other languages. There was a recent post on HN about compiling various dynamic languages to C (I've lost the

This is very cool and I hope this idea spreads to other languages. There was a recent post on HN about compiling various dynamic languages to C (I've lost the link). Of particular interest to me was JavaScript. For writing js code targeting the iPhone, PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium are cool, but still feel a bit gimped for doing truly native non-cross-platform stuff.