Re: Compilation to js [Update]

[Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>]

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Hi Ian,

Ian Price <ianprice90@gmail.com> writes:

> I think the approach using the dominator functions in (language cps
> utils) is the right way, and is giving the results I want. I intend to
> write a blog post shortly explaining how dominators / cps-soup work
> and how to compile from it for other people who may be interested in
> these low level guile details.

That sounds great!

> That said, you can take some scheme files and compile them with the
> usual functions, e.g.
>
> (compile-file "/tmp/foo.scm" #:to 'javascript #:output-file "/tmp/foo.js")

Is there already a clean way to run javascript functions from scheme —
for example accessing the DOM? That would directly allow pure Guile web
development.

> What's next? Number 2 on my list from last time was
>>  Complete porting boot-9 to js (in particular, the guile module system)
> so this is what I intend to do. This will allow us to run much more
> complicated programs, and you won't need to keep reimplementing
> functions like map.
>
> Another issue is with macros, which are not being residualised now
> that their representation was changed, so I'll do that too.

What does residualization of macros mean? (I feel I’m missing language here).

Best wishes,
Arne
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