I attempted to compile racket for chrome's sandbox (NaCL) but ran into a half dozen issues (functions like execv are not implemented). I haven't pursued it further but its probably possible.
On 08/30/2011 06:30 PM, Ray Racine wrote: > Chrome has solidified their native app capability. Downside, only support is > native apps in C or C++. Racket scheme is embeddable in a C program, hence, > the theoretical possibility of Racket embedded within Chrome. As native apps > are just another app loadable from the Chrome Web Store, Racket in Chrome is > just another app install like any other app. In fact a particular Web App in > the store could be a combination of the Racket native app with zos. > > I believe an embedded Racket would act very much like a Racket "place" with > the HTML 5 / Javascript engine on the other side of the place channel swapping > JSON and Sexps. The native app C sandbox has access to the various chrome > apis for storage, sound etc and therefore invokable via Racket as well. > > Substantial work I'm sure but the idea of it all just crossed my mind and I'd > thought I'd toss it out there. > > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
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