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Podcast 063 - Ted Neward on Transpilers

Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast

English - October 16, 2017 00:00 - 27 minutes - 27.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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Previous Episode: Podcast 062 - Ted Neward on Akka
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Ted Neward is transpiling other languages to JavaScript.


Show Notes:

CFront, a C++ to C transpiler. I found an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup (archive.org link) that mentions CFront on its 30 year anniversary
Emscripten / asm.js
WebAssembly
CoffeeScript / Ruby on Rails
Microsoft and Google collaborate on Angular 2
Anders Hejlsberg
Kotlin can transpile to JavaScript (check out Episode 057 with Michael Yotive on Kotlin)
Fantom
Dart
NaCl (and PNaCl) for Chrome
TypeScript
Smartsheet (Smartsheet Developer Portal)
Book: Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools (aka "The Dragon Book")
ANTLR

Ted Neward is on Twitter.


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