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1 point by rocketnia 4723 days ago | link | parent

I've actually been porting Lathe (my general-purpose Arc library) over to JavaScript over the past few days. ^_^ (https://github.com/rocketnia/lathe/tree/master/js)

I consider it to be a prototype of what Penknife is supposed to be like, but with no module system or custom syntax. It's mostly for fun and so I have something to run when my only runtime is a browser, but I wouldn't be surprised if an s-expression parser over lathe.js turned into a pretty viable hack of a language.

That hype about Node.js is a bit exaggerated though. I haven't read this, but it seems like a more realistic explanation of what's going on with the asynchronous IO: http://blog.mixu.net/2011/02/01/understanding-the-node-js-ev...

The important thing for Node.js is that JavaScript has a nice Scheme-like evaluation model with a very high demand for fast implementations. It's at the point where they're practically putting it into hardware, which would essentially mean a new age of Lisp Machines. Pretty nifty and all. ^_^