Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ...

Re:Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ... by max99x on Friday September 30, 2011 @11:44AM (#3057401)

I've spoken a little about the reason we couldn't use GHC among other things, at https://github.com/replit/repl.it/issues/43. In short, we need an interpreter rather than a compiler or a JIT, and we need the interpreter itself to run in the browser.

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Re:Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ... by jstepien on Friday September 30, 2011 @11:58AM (#3057454)

Thanks for a quick reply. So having GHCi - the GHC's REPL - successfully emscripted could make adding Haskell support possible, right?

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Re:Try Python, Ruby, Lua, Scheme, QBasic, Forth ... by max99x on Friday September 30, 2011 @12:18PM (#3057531)

If it uses a JIT internally, it will produce x86 machine code, which is meaningless to us since we aren't emulating the whole machine. If it doesn't, then emscripting it should work.

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