Re:Parenscript- Compile Lisp to Javascript
by gruseom on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @06:34PM
(#82605)
One thing is worth mentioning here: Parenscript is not a CL to JS compiler, but rather a way of embedding JS inside Lisp. You're not writing your PS code in Lisp and you don't have the full power of CL. Over time, people have added more Lisp-like features (for example, keyword parameters), but it's still very much a sexp dialect of JS.
On the surface this seems less cool, but it has advantages that would be hard to achieve with a full Lisp->JS compiler. The generated JS is very efficient. Plus, it's very readable, so you can use all the standard tools for debugging etc. These things are critical for application development, which is why you see full compilers pop up more in the research world and not so much in business.
On the surface this seems less cool, but it has advantages that would be hard to achieve with a full Lisp->JS compiler. The generated JS is very efficient. Plus, it's very readable, so you can use all the standard tools for debugging etc. These things are critical for application development, which is why you see full compilers pop up more in the research world and not so much in business.