Re:Continuum - A javascript ES6 VM
by wyuenho on Saturday January 05, 2013 @05:43AM
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Actually, you need to not use a few more features too, like not dynamically attaching properties to objects at run time, and dynamically creating new clasess... but the point is, you don't need to define a new language when all you have to do is to use only a subset.
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Well RPython is just that: a restricted subset of Python (hence the name). Similarly, asm.js is a (small) subset of ECMAScript targeted at compile-to-js code generators. It's just about specifying what the subset contains, not inventing a new language.