acorn, nashorn, typescript

[Claus Reinke]

Lots of things happening recently, including:

- Acorn: yet another JavaScript parser

http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/acorn.html

- Nashorn: JavaScript on the JVM

https://oracleus.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=4082&tclass=popup

Nashorn: Optimizing JavaScript and Dynamic Language Execution on the JVM

https://oracleus.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=5390&tclass=popup

- Typescript: Transpiler, ES6 features plus types and tooling

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Steve-Lucco-and-Luke-Hoban-Inside-TypeScript

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Anders-Hejlsberg-Introducing-TypeScript

http://www.typescriptlang.org/

As always, feel free to share tool info here, and invite tool
developers to join and to talk about their efforts.

Claus

[Chris Brody]

Awesome tools! A couple more I found from CodeProject:

http://ympbyc.github.com/LittleSmallscript/ - Smalltalk-like simple
language that compiles to JavaScript

Doppio VM - http://int3.github.com/doppio/about.html - JVM written in
CoffeeScript that runs on the browser, seems complete

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> http://clausreinke.github.com/js-tools/resources.html - tool information
> http://groups.google.com/group/js-tools - mailing list information

[Ariya Hidayat]

Additional tools:

Macro for JavaScript: http://sweetjs.org/

Complete statement, branch, and function coverage:
https://github.com/yahoo/Istanbul


Regards,


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