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7609 :: Compile Nim to JavaScript from inside Nim?

• drkameleon (orginal) [2021-03-11T16:41:47+01:00] view original

  OK, so...

  I know that a Nim program can be compiled to JavaScript using the corresponding backend.

  The question is: inside a compiled (C/C++) Nim program, can I convert Nim code to JavaScript using the very same backend? Is that accessible the way I think it could be?

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• Araq (orginal) [2021-03-11T16:47:45+01:00] view original

  I'm not sure what you mean but you can import the Nim compiler into your Nim code and compile the Nim code to JS via the JS code generator...

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• Clonk (orginal) [2021-03-11T17:05:45+01:00] view original

  Genuine question : Why would you do that ?

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• kamilchm (orginal) [2021-03-11T17:48:19+01:00] view original

  To send a dynamically generated JS code to the browser?

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• pietroppeter (orginal) [2021-03-11T17:56:13+01:00] view original

  I guess that easiest way to send dynamicall generated JS to the browser would be to write nim to file and run nim compiler on it with JS backend, then read and send the result. I guess this would not qualify as happening inside the executable (you also depend on the compiler for this).

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• drkameleon (orginal) [2021-03-11T19:01:33+01:00] view original

  Yep, that's pretty much what I was thinking of. I just want to ... test the waters first and not start experimenting with something that could possibly not work at all after all...

  Thanks for the input!

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• drkameleon (orginal) [2021-03-11T19:03:36+01:00] view original

  https://github.com/arturo-lang/arturo

  I'm experimenting with the idea of producing javascript code too, as a 2nd backend (pretty much like Nim).

  Chances are it will be implemented in the language itself. But I am just experimenting.

  I don't want the whole code in JS. I just want the option to convert any Nim to JS, on-demand.

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