[Ur] What about a new project - general purpose ur like language which collaborates with existing languages?

Vladimir Shabanov vshabanoff at gmail.com
Thu Nov 21 10:59:08 EST 2013


2013/11/21 Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de>

> Being able to reuse code is key. But sometimes there are constraints
> such as "must be run in python interpreter" ..
>
> AFAIK: ur comes very close, there is only one thing missing: more
> backends and spending more time .. ?
>

I don't see the point in adding more backends. Browsers only run
JavaScript. Ur does it. And (with enough FFI) server-side C can be used
from anywhere.
Generating PHP or Node.js code defeats the purpose of Ur/Web to be safe
(and fast) language for the web.
Maybe some kind of improved FFI would help, but rewriting the whole
compiler to support generating PHP?
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