On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:58:50 +0930 Simon Lees <[email protected]> said: > > > On 04/11/2017 07:22 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:58:58 +0930 Simon Lees <[email protected]> said: > > > >> > >> > >> On 04/11/2017 04:19 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > >>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 12:01:49 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > >>> <[email protected]> said: > >>> > >>>> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:50 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 23:25:39 -0700 Cedric BAIL <[email protected]> > >>>>> said: > >>>>> > >>>>>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Simon Lees <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>>>> On 04/10/2017 12:39 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > >>>>>>>>> Which brings me to my last point: we should adopt and use for REAL a > >>>>> one possible option is to jump behind the transpiler bandwagon. what > >>>>> about writing a js -> lua transpiler? this should be not that hard > >>>>> given the incredible similarity in the 2 languages. you can then write > >>>>> in lua or in js. just you need a compile step for js. perhaps we should > >>>>> also have a compile step for lua anyway? at least minify it for faster > >>>>> parsing etc....? > >>>> > >>>> isn't jerryscript good enough? Seems pretty small, not sure if they're > >>>> focusing on efficiency as much as ram/disk. > >>> > >>> jerryscript is interpreted only - no jit, so it's going to have a fairly > >>> big performance hit vs something jitted. if the point is to write more > >>> and more in such a language you want it to be as performant as possible. > >>> it can be more performant with a jit... so you'd want that. > >>> > >> > >> I'll be controversial and say that for many Desktop UI applications and > >> probably for a lot of smartphone ones as well performance really doesn't > >> matter that much, its not like were running these things on a 386, So I > >> guess sometimes less performant languages have other benefits which is > >> why people use them. > > > > then why does android precompile java apps to native code on installation > > now as opposed to just keep interpreting? :) > > > > I was referring to the half written in javascript :-P, granted most of > these are just slightly glorified web pages with notifications but still.
the problem is with the view that all apps are just the "glorified web page with notifications". some apps are. some apps are not. thinking one rule applies to everything and everyone is a bad thing. :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
