Would you use JavaScript compiled to C for your server applications

9 points by int64 12 years ago | 10 comments

Thinking about creating one. Will be mainly used for the development of server applications and later add a UI framework.

swalsh 12 years ago |

I like Javascript, I write a lot of it. The progress that has been made through the years is pretty remarkable. Sometimes its hard to believe.

That said, javascript handles every number as a 64 bit float. For a lot of applications, that just doesn't matter. But to me, it does... its caused a lot of heart aches in my life, and for that I want to keep a better language for my server.

int64 12 years ago | |

The plan is to provide primitive data type extensions as well which can be used in place of the "var" keyword

karterk 12 years ago |

With servers being a commodity these days, I can only think of rare use cases where this would be helpful vs just scaling horizontally behind a load balancer. Also, in most real world systems I have seen, the real bottle neck is in the I/O and rarely in the business logic or server application level.

int64 12 years ago | |

Thats very true. The plan was to give the user heavy asynchronous IO functionality that appear to the user as making a simple ajax call with a callback function. Provides the developer asynchronous functionality on the server side. Scope variables and so on are all handled behind the scenes.

phantom_oracle 12 years ago |

Forget the frontend. Just make it work 'faster' than node.js and people will use it.

If you're going to be writing it, prepare your release by writing at least 5 applications with it too.

gregorkas 12 years ago |

What about nodejs? Do you think the performance would be better with javascript compiled to c?

int64 12 years ago | |

Absolutely. Node.js is still interpreted by V8 as far as i know. The runtime libs provided by node.js are all written in JS. However, With this initiative, all the runtime libs will be implemented in c as well.

zerohp 12 years ago | | |

V8 is a JIT interpreter. The performance benefit might be less than you would think.

mutex007 12 years ago |

Sounds good to me. Might try it out.