[Chicago] PyPy?

[Ian Bicking]

Andrew Wilson wrote:
> But Ian dropped a comment about "using PyPy's javascript backend" which 
> made me think that PyPy is possibly even cooler than I thought.  Ian, 
> what exactly did you mean by that?  I *think* I caught that PyPy is 
> attempting to separate the interpreter implementation from the language 
> translation problem, which implies to me that PyPy could be "compiled" 
> into Javascript...but at about that point, I get lost.

PyPy can translate/compile Python into different backends.  One is LLVM, 
a really light VM.  Another planned is the JVM.  One of the more 
experimental things to compile to is Javascript (but unlike the JVM, it 
actually exists right now).  I think there might even be a Summer of 
Code project to translate Python to Common Lisp.

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