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to HN readers: I can make LiteScript compile to PHP or C. To PHP: If you have only PHP in your hosting, you can have LiteScript source and compile for node.js
by lucio 13y ago
to HN readers: I can make LiteScript compile to PHP or C.
To PHP: If you have only PHP in your hosting, you can have LiteScript source and compile for node.js or PHP.
To C: (node native module/nginx module), when you need a ultra-fast service, and js/V8 is not fast enough.
Any of this two compiler targets make sense for you?
- deckiedan 13y agoSounds... incredible. A few questions: - Which object model & garbage collector system are you using? (in C) - How do you handle scoping differences between JS/PHP/C? - Which bignum and string libraries are you using in C? Is the String library fully unicode happy? - How do you deal with 'eval', and other JS-specific functionality? - You mention the classes being easily turned into C++ classes... how does that work with the dynamic nature of POJO objects, when at any time new methods and properties can be added to any object, or prototype? Sounds intriuging, anyway...
- lucio 13y agoGreat questions!, I guess I didn't express myself correctly. I meant: LiteScript is designed with the Grammar https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript/blob/master/source/Grammar.lite.md https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript/blob/master/source/G... separated from the "production" of target code https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript/blob/master/source/Producer_js.lite.md https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript/blob/master/source/P... I "want" to (and think I can) add new "producer" modules other than "producer_js", but I've not even started. The idea -so far- is to compile to a node native extension http://nodejs.org/api/addons.html#addons_hello_world http://nodejs.org/api/addons.html#addons_hello_world so most C answers are: V8's With respect to PHP, I think it's simpler. The idea is to generate PHP but do not support all PHP quirks, just generate PHP code that is "js-like", (PHP mimics allmost all js functionality) and have support libs in LiteScript unifying APIS. Some things like "eval" can throw a compiler error, when the target is PHP.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoIs LiteScript much simpler than JavaScript, and so you're able to compile it to C more easily?
- lucio 13y agoJavascript itself it's not too hard to compile to C. The LiteScript added value will be to be able to test & debug as js, and then compile to C for production (adding all the boilerplate required for a nodejs extension). The only thing I see as "easier to compile to C" (LiteScript vs js) is that in LiteScript you define classes & properties, so it's easier to define a C++ class from a LiteScript class.