JSIL

CIL to Javascript Compiler

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2011	2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	1	2
2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	1	4
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	2	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	1	2

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julius·Jul 31, 2011

Also check out the demos at http://jsil.org/ The developer has implemented very basic functionality[1] of the XNA library (so there are games :D). Programming a complete game in .NET (super-powerful IDEs, with code-completion and integrated debuggers, profiles is nice), then deploying it to the Web is a pretty cool thing. Of course this project is not nearly as mature[2] as GWT. But I like the approach of compiling bytecode better, than GWTs Java compilations. Many cool .NET languages exist (like F#), which you can use that way. [1]: that's basically it https://github.com/kevingadd/JSIL/blob/master/Libraries/JSIL... [2]: page says "JSIL is still in development. You will hit bugs."

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tilt·Jul 31, 2011Submission

JSIL: CIL to Javascript Compiler

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edtechdev·Jun 6, 2011

I like .NET/Mono stuff, and I totally understand the frustration of .NET developers. I would want to point out though that Javascript does have all the features you listed that .NET has, except the desktop stack - but of course that is precisely what Microsoft (and others, like GTK developers) may be developing. "what .NET is. It is a desktop stack, a server stack, a runtime for many languages, those many languages themselves, and countless libraries that are being actively developed" Javascript on the server: http://nodejs.org/ Javascript as a runtime for many languages (more than .NET even I believe at this point): https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... Countless javascript libraries: in the browser https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki and on the server: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules Even .NET cod

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e can be ported to javascript via tools like: https://github.com/kevingadd/JSIL (as can java via GWT and so forth) Although of course System.Windows.Forms hasn't been ported (wouldn't surprise me if someone does though). By the way, I do educational software - we like applets and so forth. That was the main drawback to the .NET/Mono platform, from my point of view. When Silverlight was released to run .NET in the browser, that was great, but it only works in Windows, and Monolight doesn't seem to work too well as a replacement on other platforms. Now with HTML5 and canvas, it's even nicer than applets, although a bit slower (can't run a complex circuit simulation as easily, for example), plus it runs on mobile/tablet platforms of course.

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