On Thursday 24 August 2006 9:10 am, Don Hopkins wrote: > You can read about OpenLaszlo and Project Legals (OpenLaszlo for > Multiple Runtimes) here: > http://www.openlaszlo.org this is a really really interesting path of current trends: to write web apps on a single, easy language, and get it compiled into different environments for web 'deploying'. unfortunately, most of these efforts consider JavaScript a usable language. yes, it would be absolutely wonderfull to replace JS with Lua, but compiling Lua into a different bytecode wouldn't be the same. most bytecode VMs out there are really bad, and those that are 'good' have a totally inappropriate (for Lua) focus and structure. i really don't see any way out; if we want to write client-side apps in Lua, we need a Lua VM in the client. please, somebody prove me wrong... -- Javier
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