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[-] CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Oh boy, anybody remember clojurescript? That was a time.

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago
[-] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

I believed this is a Firefox fork. Almost search it!

[-] Robin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

If you can compile your lisp to webassembly it will run in the browser

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eww.html

1 Overview

EWW, the Emacs Web Wowser, is a web browser for GNU Emacs that provides a simple, no-frills experience that focuses on readability. It loads, parses, and displays web pages using shr.el. It can display images inline, if Emacs was built with image support, but there is no support for CSS or JavaScript.

To use EWW, you need to use an Emacs built with libxml2 support.

[-] Zarajevo@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

If it was it would be useless since almost 100% does not support it. Big US corporations are setting the standards based on their business requirements and they don't care about what people think. The web today is almost fully controlled by US oligoarchs

[-] arthur@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

If you want to write frontend code with a functional programming language, Elixir may be worth your time.

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago

back in the early days with the tag it was possible to run stuff other than javascript on client side (perl for instance)

i believe lisp should've been also possible..?

[-] klar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I mean writing a JavaScript LISP interpreter is rather trivial...

[-] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Not sure what you mean exactly. JavaScript, for better or worse, is sort of essential to the modern web. You could write things in Clojurescript, but that still compiles down to js.

There is Nyxt which is written and extensible with Common Lisp.

[-] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev -3 points 1 day ago

If no then why nobody has made it already?

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

If you made a browser run lisp, it would only be useful for web pages that are scripted with lisp. Most web sites are currently scripted in JavaScript. Adding lisp support to a browser is the easy part. It's like deciding Latin is a better language then English, and then learning it. If you then came here and started using only Latin, it probably wouldn't be very satisfying.

[-] Robin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Because there are no websites with tags. No website require it so no browsers support it so no websites require it so..

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