Re: [Chicken-users] No... but it is... interesting...

[Felix]

From: Markus Klotzbuecher <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] No... but it is... interesting...
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:54:57 +0100

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 09:15:15AM -0500, Felix wrote:
>> 
>> This announces the availability of "SPOCK", a Scheme->JavaScript
>> compiler and runtime system. It can statically compile
>> really-nearly-mostly R5RS-Scheme to JS or can be used to dynamically
>> generate code from s-expressions (say, in a web-server or CGI
>> application). Tail-calls and first-class continuations are fully
>> supported.
>> 
>> It is slow, buggy, barely tested and stresses JavaScript engines in
>> unexpected ways. It doesn't run on IE, of course (this will be
>> addressed, someday). Documentation is not complete yet.
>> 
>> If your browser supports <canvas> tags, you can try:
>> 
>>   http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/spock/threads.html
>> 
>>   This application draws some graphics in call/cc-based coroutines,
>>   the source to this is here:
>> 
>>   http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/spock/threads.scm
>> 
>> The test-suite can be run at:
>> 
>>   http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/spock/test.html
>> 
>>   Note that running this this takes a while and might trigger a
>>   browser warning. Just continue executing it until it either
>>   errors out or runs to completion.
>> 
>> Initial documentation can be found here:
>> 
>>   http://wiki.call-cc.org/egg/spock
> 
> Very nice! Could this be used to interact with Qt QML and Quick?

I haven't used these, but if QML is ECMA-Script-compliant, I see
no reason why it shouldn't work. I would be very interested in
the results, in case you are going to try it out!


cheers,
felix