To boldly go where Node man has gone before

Re:To boldly go where Node man has gone before by vibrunazo on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @03:32PM (#3983618)

You can compile Go to js with gwt. You can reuse code that way. I personally even reuse Java code between Android, front end Web and server. Because of gwt.

I don't think there are many people who choose js because they like it. It's usually because they feel forced. Javascript is a terrible language, I always prefer one of the compilers.

Dart can't come fast enough.

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Re:To boldly go where Node man has gone before by densh on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @04:08PM (#3983768)

Go is not related to java in any way. It has it's own runtime. Applications are compiled to native binaries on each platform.

Is there a separate branch/fork of GWT with Go support? That would be absolutely awesome in fact but it doesn't seem to be true.

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Re:To boldly go where Node man has gone before by petercooper on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @03:43PM (#3983660)

You can compile Go to js with gwt. You can reuse code that way.

This makes me wonder.. and this is totally off the cuff, non-researched pondering.. could there be merit to a JavaScript dialect that would compile to Go?

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Re:To boldly go where Node man has gone before by veemjeem on Thursday May 17, 2012 @06:54AM (#3986363)

Where is this GWT compiler for Go? From what I understand, GWT is for Java translation only, and it only works well on code that doesn't reference any third party libraries. It doesn't work that well on code that makes heavy use of annotations either.

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