Essentially the same html/css rendering of Firefox or Chromium, still able to access the www, but with javascript fully removed for another language that can be interpreted - like python or lua. Is this feasible?

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    Arguably typescript fits, it is converted to JS for runtime, but the developer writes TS. You theoretically could transpile python or lua to JS, no idea if it exists yet though.

    Otherwise WASM would be the main contender, dunno if lua or python can compile to wasm, but lots of languages can.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      2 days ago

      Typescript doesn’t run on the browser. But I’m pretty sure we will see native typescript soon. At this point, TS is practically the industry standard for developing serious JavaScript.

      • CameronDev@programming.dev
        1·
        2 days ago

        I dunno, I don’t see the benefit to native TS in the browser. For compatibility, all sites will continue to serve JS, so what does TS gain anyone? And there is no performance benefit, maybe a performance hit given none of the type validation can happen until all of the scripts have downloaded, so execution can’t begin until that has happened?

        I could be way off on this though, I’m not a webdev :/

              • CameronDev@programming.dev
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                19 hours ago

                I don’t think I understand. Native TS does the type checking at compile time right? Not run time? Or would the compile happen in the browser?

                  • CameronDev@programming.dev
                    1·
                    14 hours ago

                    At least in the node.js native TS implementation, they strip the types and don’t do checks, so you don’t get runtime type checks:

                    Node.js does not type check your code when it runs TypeScript files. Use the TypeScript compiler separately if you want to catch type-related errors:

                    https://nodejs.org/learn/typescript/run-natively

                    I think, but I’m no expert, but in order to have type checking you need to have some kind of compilation check? You cant just start interpreting and hope to work things out on the fly?