[chuck-dev] Fwd: Porting ChucK to JavaScript with Emscripten

[Arve Knudsen]

Hi Phill!

First of all, you might want to check out the fruits of my existing
efforts, if you haven't already: ChucKJS (https://github.com/aknuds1/chuckjs)
and ChucK Demos (http://chuckdemos.com, this is based on ChucKJS).

Second, I have a fork of ChucK which I linked to in my original email:
https://github.com/aknuds1/chuck/tree/emscripten. The work goes on in the
emscripten branch. To build this, you must have sourced the Emscripten SDK
(the whole thing is a bit ramshackle for now, sorry about that) and type
"make emscripten".

Sure you're welcome to help out! Can you write C++? The project is C++
driven, since the idea is to transform ChucK sources (in C++) to JavaScript
automatically. Right now, I mainly need to write Emscripten shims
(emulations) of ChucK dependencies such as the audio driver (I'm currently
thinking we should emulate ASIO).

Otherwise, we will probably need some JavaScript ("unit") tests down the
line to verify that e.g. the shims do what they're supposed to.

Best,
Arve

On Sep 11, 2014 11:43 AM, "Phill" <phillip.hermans at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I am a huge fan of ChucK and am just not getting seriously involved with
> JS.
>
> Mainly I'd like to say that have chuck available in JS is a great idea, as
> far as how to implement I defer to your judgment.
>
> Basically I want to give you kudos and also offer any help I may be able
> to give as a code monkey in this regard.
>
> Have you started a new GitHub for this version?
>
> thanks,
> pmh
> https://github.com/cheesymoo
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Arve Knudsen <arve.knudsen at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 9:10 PM
> Subject: [chuck-dev] Porting ChucK to JavaScript with Emscripten
> To: ChucK Developer Mailing List <chuck-dev at lists.cs.princeton.edu>
>
>
> Hi guys
>
> I've re-directed my focus from manually porting ChucK to JavaScript (i.e.,
> ChucKJS) to an automatic port with the help of the Emscripten tool (
> http://emscripten.org/): https://github.com/aknuds1/chuck/tree/emscripten.
> I don't know yet how this'll pan out, but I'm thinking it should be more
> future proof than having to maintain an independent JavaScript version of
> ChucK. Also, it ought to be much more performant, since Emscripten
> generates asm.js rather than vanilla JavaScript.
>
> The status of the port is that I am currently able to generate a
> JavaScript library, chuck.js, which can be invoked, but I need to write
> shims for dependencies such as the audio driver to actually do anything
> useful.
>
> Arve
>
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