On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:46 PM, David Arno <da...@davidarno.org> wrote:
> We can't use something like LLVM though as we are not simply creating a > language compiler: we are creating a framework compiler. We can't just > compiler AS3 code to JavaScript, for we need to handle rendering in a > language-specific fashion. JavaScript for example will likely need skin > "classes" written directly in JavaScript that need to be stitched in to > the output by the JavaScript back-end. > > I don't recommend the approach of writing a separate javascript layer - haxe has the concept of "untyped" code blocks, and a special Dynamic type, which is extremely useful at getting around browser incompatibilities (I think GWT has something similar). I don't think it makes sense to create a javascript backend without this feature. - Niel
