ECMAchine

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lisp interpreter

SHOW HN2012

156points
19comments
#122of 1,677 in 2012
Top 8%of 2012 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Execution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun and awesome to play with

    From 2 comments
    • I don't really know what to say, except I love you, and this is awesome!
      SeoxyS on HN
    • Very very fun indeed. The examples are a really nice introduction too!
      minikomi on HN
  • Processes work intuitively

    From 1 comment
    • It is awesome... When I read operating system I immediately started looking for processes and, lo and behold, there are processes [1]. And they work very intuitively too... [1]…
      reginaldo on HN
  • Examples are a good introduction

    From 1 comment
    • Very very fun indeed. The examples are a really nice introduction too!
      minikomi on HN

Objections

  • Running in a browser does not make it an operating system

    From 2 comments
    • /sigh. If it runs in the browser, it's not an operating system. Nice April 1 joke.
      eli_gottlieb on HN
    • I am saying that the church turing thesis is not a fact or theorem. It is an unprovable hypothesis, a belief whose inclusion in a deduction does not add any more to it unless the…
      Dn_Ab on HN
  • REPL did not accept input in Firefox

    From 2 comments
    • This looks really cool but I can't get the REPL to accept keyboard input in Firefox.
      dullcrisp on HN
    • This is cool! But the command line is pretty inoperative in FF (11.0 mac). I tried to take a look at it but it's not throwing any useful errors. I did notice that you are using…
      owyn on HN

Requests

  • Expose environment as virtual folders like /proc

    From 1 comment
    • Two additions would be really cool (I'm thinking about adding them myself): 1) Expose the environment as virtual folders (like /proc in linux). So that an object in memory…
      gosub on HN
  • Expose the DOM as files and add a REPL to every webpage

    From 1 comment
    • Two additions would be really cool (I'm thinking about adding them myself): 1) Expose the environment as virtual folders (like /proc in linux). So that an object in memory…
      gosub on HN

Questions

Alternatives named

  • jslinux

    From 1 comment
    • Does this imply Linux is not an operating system? Because it runs in the browser. See, for instance: http://bellard.org/jslinux/ or my own http://www.ubercomp.com/jslm32/src/
      reginaldo on HN

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