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From: Kuba Ober <ober.14@osu.edu>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [announce] O'Browser : OCaml on browsers
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:43:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811172244.01033.ober.14@osu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492199E2.1020504@gmail.com>

On Monday 17 November 2008, Benjamin Canou wrote:

> O'Browser is an implementation of the OCaml virtual machine in
> JavaScript, designed to run in web browsers.
> It features a runtime library compatible with OCaml's standard one
> (including OOP and concurrent threads) and bindings of some JavaScript
> functions to manipulate the DOM primitives.
[...]
> Please note that this is an early version, in particular the DOM
> interface module is neither pretty nor well typed.
> However, it can already be used to create little applets or scripts (as
> in the tutorial [2], the examples of the distribution [3] or my webpage
> [4]) and we'll be glad to receive your comments or bug reports.

And the reason is?....

Pardon the question, but is this meant to be "useful" in the future,
or is it just a fun experiment (in which case the next target should
be brainfuck).

My question (why and what for?) is serious, though.

Cheers, Kuba


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-17 16:20 Benjamin Canou
2008-11-18  3:43 ` Kuba Ober [this message]
2008-11-18  7:33   ` [Caml-list] " David Teller
2008-11-18 18:15     ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-18 18:32       ` Vincent Balat
2008-11-18 20:01         ` David Thomas
2008-11-21 15:27           ` Benjamin Canou
2008-11-30 12:09             ` William Le Ferrand
2008-11-18  8:18 ` Jon Harrop
2008-11-18 18:18   ` Kuba Ober
2008-11-18  8:33 ` Florian Hars
2008-11-18  9:12 ` Paolo Donadeo
2008-11-18  9:14 ` Burgisser Francois
2008-11-18  9:40   ` Gabriel Kerneis

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