wat-js
ECMAScript 6 compatibility table
wat-js | ECMAScript 6 compatibility table | |
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4 | 33 | |
257 | 4,406 | |
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10.0 | 5.2 | |
over 6 years ago | 10 days ago | |
JavaScript | HTML | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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wat-js
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C Is Not a Low-level Language – Your computer is not a fast PDP-11
Well Forth is possibly the most minimal VM over a platform, as evidenced by openfirmware.
It does have problems scaling though, in that if you've seen one Forth, you've seen one Forth ie. The variations required to fit a platform make them semi-incompatible.
That's not to say that a more lispy Forth wouldn't be useful though, in that a concatenative syntax allows us to pass custom datastructures around like APL, and CPS (delimited continuations with lexically scoped dynamic binding would come from the lisp side (see https://github.com/manuel/wat-js).
Memory management in Forth can handle multiple memory types eg. https://flashforth.com/ so adding something like ref counting (https://github.com/zigalenarcic/minilisp/blob/main/main.c) to handle the dynamic list side of things might mesh well.
In any case, if you're looking for a self hosting lisp that runs on bare metal, https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru has been out for a few years.
- The Workflow Pattern
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Brett Slatkin: Why am I building a new functional programming language?
https://github.com/manuel/wat-js
If you have delimited continuations then you can construct coroutines/threads/await/async, promises etc.
I guess that this might be suitable for many scenarios thanks to nodejs, but the runtimes it relies on are not exactly small.
- The Mysteries of Lisp (2015)
ECMAScript 6 compatibility table
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TypeScript Is Surprisingly OK for Compilers
http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
This page lists features from es6 (and newer versions linked at the top) along with compliance to the spec. First column is the current browser, second is babel+corejs polyfills.
Overall, babel gets about 70% of the way there.
- Яндекс Браузер не переводит видео про обучение украинских танкистов, хотя другие видео с канала МО Британии переводит нормально
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Brett Slatkin: Why am I building a new functional programming language?
Case in point: Tail Call Optimization has been part of the JS spec since ES6, but remains completely unimplemented in all mainstream browsers/engines besides Safari[1]. For all but the most predictable inputs, you're pretty much forced to use loops where recursion would otherwise be preferable.
Additional case in point: async Iterables cannot be processed as a piped stream. You must use the for await construct, which is a shame considering the FP niceties that the Array type already provides for more traditional lists. Once again, you are forced to use an imperative construct unless you specifically want to defeat the purpose of using an Iterable in the first place by trying to convert it into an Array (... and potentially choking in the process, I might add!).
[1]: https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
- [AskJS] Is there a detailed comparison chart that shows what's supported in JavaScript ES5 versus ES6?
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A single developer has been maintaining core.js with little recognition or support. Almost all modern single page apps use core.js. Millions of downloads and hardly any compensation
Eventually the browsers started racing to near-full ES6 compatibility. I remember following ES6 progress in realtime with articles and with compatibility tables http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ . But many people are acting like that either didn't happen, or like it was a one and done thing (despite the ESNext naming shift to avoid the focus on numbers). So we see people just hand-waving away the importance of polyfills like in this gem:
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Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
> https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
Oh man this was a rough one both for FF and Chrome but Chrome did perform better slightly on cursory glance.
Thanks for providing these links, they're definitely a good rule of thumb benchmarks to test new browsers
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My 1st website "Claw Man" written in javascript
Javascript / CSS language syntax: can see availability for Javascript here - https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
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Is there any legitimate reasons for the javascript hate?
I say this as a JS user, but there is no singular JavaScript (realistically, it's not even JavaScript but instead ECMAScript). There is no one place to go that lays out all of what the language can or can't do the way PHP and Python do. The ECMAScript board makes recommendations, then the browsers and runtimes implement features of the recommendations. This site does a good job laying out which features are implemented for browsers and runtimes based on the flavor of the ECMAScript standard. This unique experience can be especially frustrating for someone learning JavaScript and coming from another language that does not have this problem.
- JS Polyfills - Part 1
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[AskJS] Is there a JavaScript library that will test all ES features on your browser and tell you which it supports and which it doesn't?
https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ has a column for "current browser"
What are some alternatives?
minilisp - A small lisp interpreter with reference counting memory management aimed at interactive game development
es6-features - ECMAScript 6: Feature Overview & Comparison
cc65 - cc65 - a freeware C compiler for 6502 based systems
Babel (Formerly 6to5) - 🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.
conductor - Conductor is a microservices orchestration engine.
Traceur compiler - Traceur is a JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler
wekan-node20 - Database connect test with Node.js 20, Bun and Deno. Creating single executeables with Bun and Deno.
es6-cheatsheet - ES2015 [ES6] cheatsheet containing tips, tricks, best practices and code snippets
Kind - A next-gen functional language
es6features - Overview of ECMAScript 6 features
Lebab - Turn your ES5 code into readable ES6. Lebab does the opposite of what Babel does.
browserslist - 🦔 Share target browsers between different front-end tools, like Autoprefixer, Stylelint and babel-preset-env