Comments on: Erlang-style concurrency with JavaScript 1.7

By: Roberto Saccon

Roberto Saccon — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 04:24:56 +0000

Alex, I am trying to do that: http://erlyjs.googlecode.com (a JS compiler for the Erlang VM)

By: Alex Graveley

Alex Graveley — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:45:00 +0000

@Matthieu: Whoa, I’d never heard of Rhino before! It would be a pretty interesting endeavour to implement good, lightweight processes that enforced the share-nothing principles of Erlang for Er.js running on the server side.

By: Matthieu Riou

Matthieu Riou — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:39:53 +0000

I believe yield has been implemented in Rhino’s trunk although I haven’t tested it myself yet. You’ll need to enable the Javascript 1.7 features by passing “-version 170″ to the command line.

By: seth

seth — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:37:31 +0000

verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry cool

By: h3

h3 — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:01:06 +0000

Very impressive. For the first time, I suddenly wish it was possible to make a socket server in JavaScript.. However, I see many case where this could be useful in a performance/responsiveness perspective.

By: Neil Mix

Neil Mix — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:07:30 +0000

Terrific! I’ve always thought there was a symmetry between generators and Erlang processes just waiting to be explored. Glad to see you exploring that realm.

Generators are currently only Firefox 2+, but they’re also included in the upcoming ES4 (ECMAScript 4, aka JavaScript 2) spec. I’d expect to see them showing up in more browsers within the next year or two.

By: orph

orph — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:52:05 +0000

@Adrian: I believe only Firefox 2.0+ implements the newer JS 1.7+ generators feature, though I’d love to be proven wrong.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:32:47 +0000

Nice. What mainstream browsers support javascript 1.7?

Safari 3 doesn’t seem to, but Firefox 2 does (and looks very nice).

Takes me back to the co-operative multitasking of Windows 3

By: Bacek

Bacek — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:11:18 +0000

WOW!!!