On: Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes...

[ajx]

another interpreted language running inside of an interpreted language... sweet. All we need now is to write a perl interpreter in Lua and then run it inside of the javascript Lua interpreter and we'll really see the scripts slow down to a crawl.

[stcredzero → ajx]

It would still run about as well as Tcl. [ducks]

[die_sekte → stcredzero]

Lets add an Io interpreter to the mix!

(For those who don't know: Io is very powerful, but also very slow.)

[draegtun → die_sekte]

Steve Dekorte (creator of Io) has already been thinking about an Io implementation on top of Javascript.

ref: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iolanguage/message/12526

[die_sekte → draegtun]

Should be a relatively good fit, with both languages having prototypal oo. I wonder how he would implement the metaprogramming parts of Io.

[draegtun → die_sekte]

I see its actually more than just thinking because he has a repo called "Io port to Javascript (node.js)" on github: https://github.com/stevedekorte/oia