crossplatform/web

[Alan Grover]

There is a project at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~juice/ called "Juice" that
allows crossplatform applications like Java does, but using compilers
instead of a virtual machine. It splits the build process into the
front-end (building the syntax tree) on the development machine, and leaves
the compilation to object code for the target machine.

They provide plugins for Netscape, etc., which perform the AST (abstract
syntax tree) to object-code step. They claim that AST's are smaller (for
larger apps), that the results run faster even with the compilation step,
and that the AST preserves more semantics allowing compilers to be smarter
and security to be easier. I didn't see any of the details of the AST, but
it might work well with functional languages like Clean, giving you easy
cross-platform access.

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