Five years later, the facts on the ground have finally changed. I no longer believe that this bargain is worth it for most new applications.
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- Apr 2022
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Transpiling with Babel ushered in the era of horrendously complicated transpiling pipelines and tooling. Writing the JavaScript of the future wasn't free. The price was an ever expanding web of complexity. This clearly wasn't the finish line.
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- Mar 2021
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opalrb.com opalrb.com
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Opal is a Ruby to JavaScript source-to-source compiler. It comes packed with the Ruby corelib you know and love. It is both fast as a runtime and small in its footprint.
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hyperstack.org hyperstack.org
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we used `backticks` to jump into native Javascript to use moment.js
In regular Ruby, `` executes in a shell, but obviously there is no shell of that sort in JS, so it makes sense that they could (and should) repurpose that syntax for something that makes sense in context of JS -- like running native JavaScript -- prefect!
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Hyperstack gives you full access to the entire universe of JavaScript libraries and components directly within your Ruby code.Everything you can do in JavaScript is simple to do in Ruby; this includes passing parameters between Ruby and JavaScript and even passing Ruby methods as JavaScript callbacks.There is no need to learn JavaScript, all you need to understand is how to bridge between JS and Ruby.
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Think JavaScript is your only option for the front-end? Think again. Hyperstack is a Ruby DSL, compiled by Opal, bundled by Webpack, powered by React.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Emscripten is an LLVM/Clang-based compiler that compiles C and C++ source code to WebAssembly
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The Unity, Godot, and Unreal game engines provide an export option to HTML5, utilizing Emscripten.
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