Re: Clojure on Javascript: Crockford javascript lectures

2011-08-13 Thread daly
Crockford makes the point that

Re: Clojure on Javascript

2010-11-03 Thread Michael Ossareh
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 21:32, Michael Gardner wrote: > Agreed. What is the point of Javascript on the server side? Familiarity? > Consistency with client-side code? > I guess what Java was meant to be, to some degree? "Write once run anywhere". I for one am still hankering for a great way to w

Re: Clojure on Javascript

2010-10-30 Thread Scott Jaderholm
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:09 AM, David Nolen wrote: > More interesting would be something along the lines of CoffeeScript (like > ClojureScript) that takes a reasonable subset Clojure and compiles into > efficient JS, allowing Clojure programmers to send Clojure code to clients. > That already e

Re: Clojure on Javascript

2010-10-30 Thread David Nolen
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Bob Hutchison wrote: > > In the short term it seems to me that an "absurdly easy" way to get > websocket/comet based servers running in Clojure would be good. At least I'd > be happy. This problem is staring me in the face and I've got to do > something next week.

Re: Clojure on Javascript

2010-10-30 Thread Bob Hutchison
On 2010-10-30, at 12:32 AM, Michael Gardner wrote: > On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:09 PM, David Nolen wrote: > >> JS brought me to Lisp, I would love to see the Clojure community bring Lisp >> back to JS. However I fail to see what advantage JS gives on the server >> side. From what I've seen the V8

Re: Clojure on Javascript

2010-10-30 Thread Victor Olteanu
How can people not *love* JavaScript? :) Take for example this excerpt from 'JavaScript: the Good Parts': "The new function object is given a prototype property whose value is an object containing a constructor property whose value is the new function object" (PS: that is not one of the "good par

Re: Clojure on Javascript

2010-10-29 Thread Michael Gardner
On Oct 29, 2010, at 11:09 PM, David Nolen wrote: > JS brought me to Lisp, I would love to see the Clojure community bring Lisp > back to JS. However I fail to see what advantage JS gives on the server side. > From what I've seen the V8 GC and Node.js have a considerable number of years > to go

Re: Clojure on Javascript

2010-10-29 Thread David Nolen
A port of Clojure to JS would be interesting. Rich has expressed interest and Chouser's ClojureScript is a step in that direction. On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Victor Olteanu wrote: > cf. node js, I thought of mentioning this link > http://dosync.posterous.com/22397098 I'm the author of th

Re: Clojure on Javascript

2010-10-29 Thread Victor Olteanu
cf. node js, I thought of mentioning this link http://dosync.posterous.com/22397098 On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Santosh Rajan wrote: > Now that server side javascript is growing with node.js, clojure on > javascript will be usefull. Nodejs is event based and not thread based so I > don't k

Re: Clojure on Javascript

2010-10-29 Thread Santosh Rajan
Now that server side javascript is growing with node.js, clojure on javascript will be usefull. Nodejs is event based and not thread based so I don't know the ramifications on clojure yet. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Tim Daly wrote: > Has anyone thought about putting clojure on javascript?