[Gambas-user] Gambas IDE and JavaScript?

[Benoit Minisini]

Le 25/02/2023 à 13:44, Benoit Minisini a écrit :
> 
> The question of "using javascript instead of Basic" has different meaning.

--> meanings

> 
> If you mean using the javascript language instead of Gambas, the answer 
> is obviously: no it's impossible by definition.
> 
> If you mean using a "javascript-like" syntax instead of a "BASIC-like" 
> syntax, it's theoritically possible.
> 
> It needs defining this "javascript-like" syntax, and write a new 

---> writing

> compiler (or extend the current one).
> 
> But, as the reality of a language is not its syntax but what it actually 
> does at runtime, this "javascript-like" syntax cannot be equivalent to 
> "javascript" - different classes and functions - and some new features 
> should be implemented in the interpreter.
> 
> For example, there is no closures in Gambas. If you want closures in the 
> "javascript-like" syntax, you have to add support for that in the 
> interpreter.
> 
> As a summary: no, Gambas will never be extended to other languages, but 
> it can be extended to other syntaxes.
> 
> Regards,
> 

I imagine a new type of source file, or we can use a special comment at 
the beginning of a file, so that the compiler and the IDE can make the 
distinction between Gambas syntax and "javascript-like" syntax.

-- 
Benoît Minisini.