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Make JavaScript Universal by Compiling It: WASM, Arduino, Raspberry, Smartphone (kickstarter.com)
12 points by seraum 3379 days ago
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Takeaway from a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13938832 (36 points, 1 day ago, 28 comments)

About the benchmark:

> That the C code is compiled with "gcc -O7" tells me just about everything I need to know about the soundness of these experiments. [...]

About the alpha test:

* It's weird that they disable the alpha https://github.com/seraum/nectarjs/issues/1

* It failed to compile some code, like

  var hello = {foo: "Hello, world!"};
  console.log(hello["foo"]);
Hi,

as explained with another dev, "gcc -O7" its because I previously been trolled with "gcc -O3" vs others optimizations, so, as -O7 == -O3, I don't care

There is no alpha yet, but there was a closed tests session with a few people. It's explained on the KS campaign

As explained, we are finishing objects and ES5 standard, so your code doesn't compile, but this one does :

var hello = {foo: "Hello, world!"}; console.log(hello.foo);

If NetcarJS was finished, we wouldn't have to launch a KS campaign

Compiler as a service. Are you hired by the NSA to inject sniffing code in every binary ever compiled?

I'm gonna be very surprised if this even gets funded.

The tech sounds great, but compiler-as-a-service? No way.
Looks cool