Podcast 063 - Ted Neward on Transpilers
Ted Neward is transpiling other languages to JavaScript.
Show Notes:
- CFront, a C++ to C transpiler. I found an interview with Bjarne Stroustrup (archive.org link) that mentions CFront on its 30 year anniversary
- Emscripten / asm.js
- WebAssembly
- CoffeeScript / Ruby on Rails
- Microsoft and Google collaborate on Angular 2
- Anders Hejlsberg
- Kotlin can transpile to JavaScript (check out Episode 057 with Michael Yotive on Kotlin)
- Fantom
- Dart
- NaCl (and PNaCl) for Chrome
- TypeScript
- Smartsheet (Smartsheet Developer Portal)
- Book: Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools (aka "The Dragon Book")
- ANTLR
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