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1. Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2019 02:36:14 EDT Alex Schroeder 🐝

   Oh no, now I'm thinking about finding a cool language that compiles to Javascript in order to write a Gopher client for the web! But what to use? I like Emacs Lisp, if that's any help. 😄 I wasn't too happy with Clojure an ClojureScript when I tried it. Too much engineering required to get it to work, horrible error messages. Perhaps it got better.
   Anyway, do you have recommendations, experiences?
   https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-languages-that-compile-to-JS

   1. Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2019 08:05:12 EDT Alex Schroeder 🐝

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      Why did it take me a lunch break to realize that writing a Gopher client as a client-side web app cannot work? All these apps run inside the browser sandbox: Javascript, WebAssembly, and any other language that compiles to them – same limitation. All you have are WebSockets, and they are not the same as TCP sockets. And thus, no connecting from browsers to regular gopher servers! 😭
      So now that I know this will require server-side code, I might as well use Perl 5. 😜