Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler

Re:Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler by Yoric on Thursday June 05, 2014 @10:05AM (#7852001)

The name is a bit awkward, given the existence of Opalang, which is another $SomeLanguage to JavaScript compiler.

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Re:Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler by Argorak on Thursday June 05, 2014 @10:37AM (#7852157)

Given that Opal.rb was started in 2010 and Opalang (back then called opages) in 2010 as well, I would file that under "unfortunate".

https://github.com/opal/opal/commits/master?page=107 https://github.com/MLstate/opalang/commits/master?page=126

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Re:Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler by Yoric on Friday June 06, 2014 @08:17AM (#7857406)

I don't remember when Opalang was started, but I joined the project in 2008 :) Fwiw, back then the name was Opa. Opages was the name of the CMS written in Opa/Opalang.

Funnily, Opa and Ur/Web were two projects started around the same time and sharing very similar ideas, and they also collided linguistically – in German, Opa == grand-dad, while Ur == ancestor.

Anyway, have fun with Opal.rb :)

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Re:Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler by Argorak on Saturday June 07, 2014 @10:37AM (#7862179)

Thanks a lot for clearing that up (also, my post misses a "?" after opapages)!

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