Comments on: Microsoft does GWT http://blog.jaoo.dk/2008/10/01/microsoft-does-gwt/ For developers - by developers Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:26:05 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jakob Færch http://blog.jaoo.dk/2008/10/01/microsoft-does-gwt/comment-page-1/#comment-1219 Jakob Færch Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:25:34 +0000 http://blog.jaoo.dk/?p=181#comment-1219 The fun things is, the abstract tryed to sell it as exactly NOT a GWT clone: "As a result, we see an increasing number of high-level languages that are compiled to JavaScript. Examples include Java, OCaml, ObjectiveC, Scheme, Haskell, and many others. In contrast to this trend, Volta compiles a low-level assembly language, .NET MSIL, to JavaScript." [1] ---- [1] http://jaoo.dk/presentation/JavaScript+as+an+Assembly+Language The fun things is, the abstract tryed to sell it as exactly NOT a GWT clone:

“As a result, we see an increasing number of high-level languages that are compiled to JavaScript. Examples include Java, OCaml, ObjectiveC, Scheme, Haskell, and many others.
In contrast to this trend, Volta compiles a low-level assembly language, .NET MSIL, to JavaScript.” [1]

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[1] http://jaoo.dk/presentation/JavaScript+as+an+Assembly+Language

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