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Closures for C

Chris Lattner's post last week to cfe-dev, "Blocks" in Clang (aka closures), has generated a certain amount of enthusiasm, since Clang is, or will be, a compiler for C to LLVM (cf. LLVM 1.5 has been released!).

The representation of closures as blocks resembles the technique used for Poletto's 'C language; cf. the related discussion on The MetaC Language.

By Charles Stewart at 2008-09-01 13:53 | Implementation | 27 comments | other blogs | 27321 reads

Google chrome

Google releasing their own browser. This can be major news, with implications for various projects discussed here. There seems to be a boom in browser innovation recently.

They are apparently going to have their own Javascript VM (supposedly with JIT, and better GC). They implemented process isolation and sandboxing. This will clearly go in the direction of being a platform for application development (the relation to Android is intriguing). However, support for end-user client-side scripting (e.g., Greasemonkey) is not mentioned.

This is a developing story, as they say. I posted my thoughts about a google programming environment (and DSL) several times here. This may be a step in that direction.

By Ehud Lamm at 2008-09-01 21:00 | LtU Forum | 16 comments | other blogs | 12831 reads