Re: [b2g] Other Languages and Frameworks

2014-04-10 Thread Nicolas B. Pierron
On 04/09/2014 10:47 AM, Bob Thulfram wrote: This book covers Ruby, JavaScript, Erlang, Haskell, and Clojure. Has anyone run any other languages except JavaScript on Firefox OS. […] So any other languages for Firefox OS except JavaScript? Possible if not desireable? From a JavaScript engine poi

Re: [b2g] Other Languages and Frameworks

2014-04-09 Thread André Jaenisch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Bob! :) Pick one: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS A mate of mine was in favour for duetoo. Best regards, André Am 09.04.2014 20:14, schrieb Brion Vibber: > The entire runtime API/ABI for Fi

Re: [b2g] Other Languages and Frameworks

2014-04-09 Thread Brion Vibber
The entire runtime API/ABI for Firefox OS is HTML5, so technically JavaScript is all you get. :) It's possible however to compile other languages to JavaScript -- for instance C and C++ programs using the emscripten compiler < http://emscripten.org/>. Emscripten's output uses the 'asm.js' subset o

Re: [b2g] Other Languages and Frameworks

2014-04-09 Thread Marcus Cavanaugh
On 4/9/14, 10:47 AM, Bob Thulfram wrote: So any other languages for Firefox OS except JavaScript? Possible if not desireable? Any language that compiles down to JavaScript should be fine. I've personally been chomping at the bit to write a FirefoxOS app in ClojureScript; if I end up writing a

[b2g] Other Languages and Frameworks

2014-04-09 Thread Bob Thulfram
I've just been using JavaScript with Firefox OS but I recently saw a book on Web Frameworks from Pragmatic called Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks: Adventures in Better Web Apps. http://pragprog.com/book/7web/seven-web-frameworks-in-seven-weeks This book covers Ruby, JavaScript, Erlang, Haskell