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by oconnore 2035 days ago
Congratulations! What are the next directions for the scripting language?
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I know htmx is a good idea, still waiting to see if hyperscript pans out. :)

It still needs some pretty basic stuff like for loops and so forth. The goal is for it to be a embeddable, DOM-friendly & transparently asynchronous scripting language so you don't need to deal w/ callbacks:

  on click 
    add .throb to me
    wait 3s
    remove .throb from me
  end
I'd like to make ajax and web workers trivial to use from it. I hope to have a lot more time for it in the next year, now that htmx is stable. We'll see. Suggestions welcome!

edit: one thing I'm pretty sure about is that I'm going to go back to an interpreted runtime over the transpilation I'm doing now

What are the advantages of switching to an interpreted runtime?

Btw I used htmx for a small project a few months ago and it was super easy to get working. Definitely recommend it, and looking forward to trying out 1.0 as soon as I have a chance!

more flexibility and easier to make it async-transparent since the interpreter runtime is basically a built in continuation system :)