2006/8/9, Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini
Hi,
Those among you who have an interest in AJAX-style web development - that is to say the development of web applications that run entirely into the browser environment, calling back to the server back-end only to get raw data -- will probably have noticed the recent appearance of the Google Web Toolkit (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit).
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Is anyone working on anything similar or that might be interested in such a
project?
I am currently working on a Google Summer of Code project relating to some of this... The project is more or less bound to Haskell Server Pages ( http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~d00nibro/hsp/), enabling JavaScript code generation. The main difference compared to the Google Web Toolkit approach is that there are no special compiler magic added for compiling directly into JavaScript. Instead the compiled program, e.g. a cgi program generates the code (JavaScript/HTML/XML) at runtime. However, type safety is gained via an embedded language (HJScript) and a typed abstract representation of JavaScript in Haskell. For more info see http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~bjornson/soc/ Regards, Joel