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<script type="application/swift">

by sandij 11y ago

smcl 11y ago
This is something I have been hoping for or at least curious for a long time - we're able to specify script language but there is really only one supported language
asadlionpk 11y ago
I wonder how big this effort would be for browser makers. And does it even make sense?
- sandij 11y ago
  It was a plan for Google’s Dart: http://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html http://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html
mitchtbaum 11y ago
<script type="application/lua">
- alextgordon 11y ago
  Please not, Lua would be easy to implement but if we can only pick one language then it's too similar to JS. We need more diversity, static types+AOT+noGC would be a good start. Also if we do get Swift it will be for the same reason we got <canvas>. Apple wanted to make dashboard, so they put an extension in webkit, people started using it on the open web and...
- frik 11y ago
  Lua would certainly be a good choice. A really good language syntax, the language is small, and LuaJIT2 is very very fast. Though, it's better to stay with one language, JavaScript - it's a good language, and everyone should learn it first (I would argue most simply to don't understand Javascript and use only a fraction of it, in an non-optimal way). Fragmentation is bad for the web. I would already consider CoffeeScript/TypeScript/Dart/etc that compile to JS bad because its fragmenting the developer base and it makes it harder to reuse code. Have you ever visited a GitHub page only to find out that a lovely open source project is coded in some obscure language that compiles to Javascript.
- Fizzadar 11y ago
  I've been waiting for browsers to implement this for years, would love the opportunity to drop JS for Lua!
vmorgulis 11y ago
<script type="application/wasm">
beckler 11y ago
Maybe in Safari, but definitely not in any other browser. Dart would of faced the same challenges.
- nailer 11y ago
  why not? Wasm is becoming pretty well supported.

by sandij 11y ago

smcl 11y ago

This is something I have been hoping for or at least curious for a long time - we're able to specify script language but there is really only one supported language

asadlionpk 11y ago

I wonder how big this effort would be for browser makers. And does it even make sense?

sandij 11y ago
It was a plan for Google’s Dart: http://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html http://news.dartlang.org/2015/03/dart-for-entire-web.html

mitchtbaum 11y ago

alextgordon 11y ago
Please not, Lua would be easy to implement but if we can only pick one language then it's too similar to JS. We need more diversity, static types+AOT+noGC would be a good start. Also if we do get Swift it will be for the same reason we got <canvas>. Apple wanted to make dashboard, so they put an extension in webkit, people started using it on the open web and...
frik 11y ago
Lua would certainly be a good choice. A really good language syntax, the language is small, and LuaJIT2 is very very fast. Though, it's better to stay with one language, JavaScript - it's a good language, and everyone should learn it first (I would argue most simply to don't understand Javascript and use only a fraction of it, in an non-optimal way). Fragmentation is bad for the web. I would already consider CoffeeScript/TypeScript/Dart/etc that compile to JS bad because its fragmenting the developer base and it makes it harder to reuse code. Have you ever visited a GitHub page only to find out that a lovely open source project is coded in some obscure language that compiles to Javascript.
Fizzadar 11y ago
I've been waiting for browsers to implement this for years, would love the opportunity to drop JS for Lua!

vmorgulis 11y ago

beckler 11y ago

Maybe in Safari, but definitely not in any other browser. Dart would of faced the same challenges.

nailer 11y ago
why not? Wasm is becoming pretty well supported.