Assembly Language for the Web

[soundsop]

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/asmil.htm?

[tlrobinson]

Usually when people refer to "assembly language for the web" they're talking about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as the building blocks for higher abstractions. These guys took the phrase a bit more literally.

[tptacek → tlrobinson]

People should take that "assembly language" quip more seriously. Why are we still writing raw CSS?

[tlrobinson → tptacek]

We (http://280slides.com) have zero CSS, zero HTML (excluding the loading screen and landing page)

[0x44 → tlrobinson]

What are you using to generate your HTML and CSS? Haml and Sass or something else?

[tlrobinson → 0x44]

No, not even generated HTML or CSS.

HAML and SASS seem to provide a very thin abstraction; you're still basically writing HTML and CSS.

Our JavaScript framework builds everything via the DOM. But our application code doesn't touch the DOM either, it's all abstracted.

[0x44 → tlrobinson]

Is that a public framework, or something that you guys wrote internally?

[delano]

I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or hurl.

[olavk]

This guy http://timhatch.com/projects/jsassembly/index.html implemented an x86 assembly interpreter in JavaScript that runs in the browser.

[kobs → olavk]

I've seen a couple of similar projecs out there (mainly MIPS). I started writing one for MIPS when I was taking a computer architecture course so that I didn't have to install SPIM, but eventually lost interest.

That is pretty neat, though.

[okeumeni]

What a waste of time! I'm forced to say.

[pageman]

someone should code a wiki using this ... :P

[kashif → pageman]

someone would rather die ;)

[bkovitz]

Haaaaa!!!!!!! This is the greatest use of technology ever!