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Re:Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to m... by alangpierce on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:54PM (#14584534)
They're already using JavaScript for all new code, and gradually converting their existing code over using decaffeinate (e.g. https://github.com/atom/atom/commit/30cd83f7aa03c023e6103b64... ). But it's a reasonably big codebase and I imagine moving everything over incrementally will take a while.
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Re:Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to m... by baby on Monday June 19, 2017 @09:51AM (#14586910)
What about moving to web assembly? Would it be relevant? Or is this a Firefox feature only? Or is this not interesting because the point is to write it in javascript?
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Re:Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to m... by treyhuffine on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:04AM (#14594271)
There was actually a huge consensus on the direction of Web Assembly recently. https://medium.com/@treyhuffine/coding-news-monthly-summary-...
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Re:Show HN: Decaffeinate converts CoffeeScript projects to m... by alangpierce on Monday June 19, 2017 @11:42AM (#14587780)
WebAssembly will be supported by all browsers and JS engines, but it's not something you would use as your source code. I think at the moment it's more focused on high-performance use cases, e.g. rewriting a CPU-intensive function in C++, compiling it to WebAssembly, and calling it from your JS code. Or taking an existing C++ codebase and running it on the web without really using the DOM. But in the long run, I think WebAssembly will make it possible to do things like DOM interactions in other programming languages.
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