whoa, it’s a dsl but backwards!

Holy crap NICE !

i’ve had a feeling this was going to happen. good stuff.

i guess we better find the limitations and start hacking them out of existence.

Wow, something we’ve all dreamed about—but who knew it would be so easy?

jes5199: That’s the spirit! Let’s not rest until we can run Rails in the browser.

(Seriously, I think the hardest thing to address is going to be getting all the nooks and crannies of Ruby’s grammar covered. Heredocs … brr.)

MenTaLguY:, some corner of my brain says “if we were LISP hackers, we’d have the whole thing done by now”. ::shudder::

Ohh, wait a minute. It’s using ParseTree. Which means grammar is solved.

Glad you all like it so far! That’s only a quick proof of concept, though, to show that simple Ruby code can be expressed in JavaScript.

The biggest thing needed to make it Ruby-like is to implement message sending, I think. I have a plan for that!

jes5199: I don’t know about LISP , but Scheme hackers have already done it.

this is potentially fantastic. my javascript apps are getting more complex day by day. so it would be great to be able to write them in ruby !

I think it’s a really bad idea for real world use, it’s a cool little experiment though. Everyone seems to want to hide JavaScript under other languages at the moment but I don’t see the sense it. JavaScript isn’t a bad language at all if you take the time to learn it.

It’s only the browser implementations that are ropey but hiding it under lots of ruby isn’t going to help that in fact it will probably make it worse.

Dan W: There’s nothing wrong with Javascript. It’s just that it’s really appealing to be able to use the same language for the entire application, front to back.

Actually, after writing that I subsequently spent several days doing some hardcore Javascleept development. I take that back: there are somethings wrong with the Java Scripts. Ruby please.