ECMAchine
Languages and libraries
lisp interpreter
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Execution: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun and awesome to play with
From 2 comments
I don't really know what to say, except I love you, and this is awesome!
SeoxyS on HNVery very fun indeed. The examples are a really nice introduction too!
minikomi on HN
Processes work intuitively
From 1 comment
It is awesome... When I read operating system I immediately started looking for processes and, lo and behold, there are processes [1]. And they work very intuitively too... [1]…
reginaldo on HN
Examples are a good introduction
From 1 comment
Very very fun indeed. The examples are a really nice introduction too!
minikomi on HN
Objections
Running in a browser does not make it an operating system
From 2 comments
/sigh. If it runs in the browser, it's not an operating system. Nice April 1 joke.
eli_gottlieb on HNI am saying that the church turing thesis is not a fact or theorem. It is an unprovable hypothesis, a belief whose inclusion in a deduction does not add any more to it unless the…
Dn_Ab on HN
REPL did not accept input in Firefox
From 2 comments
This looks really cool but I can't get the REPL to accept keyboard input in Firefox.
dullcrisp on HNThis is cool! But the command line is pretty inoperative in FF (11.0 mac). I tried to take a look at it but it's not throwing any useful errors. I did notice that you are using…
owyn on HN
Requests
Expose environment as virtual folders like /proc
From 1 comment
Two additions would be really cool (I'm thinking about adding them myself): 1) Expose the environment as virtual folders (like /proc in linux). So that an object in memory…
gosub on HN
Expose the DOM as files and add a REPL to every webpage
From 1 comment
Two additions would be really cool (I'm thinking about adding them myself): 1) Expose the environment as virtual folders (like /proc in linux). So that an object in memory…
gosub on HN
Questions
Why does it not work in Firefox?
From 1 comment
yea! Why does it not work in firefox?
abdullahkhalids on HN
Alternatives named
jslinux
From 1 comment
Does this imply Linux is not an operating system? Because it runs in the browser. See, for instance: http://bellard.org/jslinux/ or my own http://www.ubercomp.com/jslm32/src/
reginaldo on HN