Section: New Software and Platforms

scheme2JS

Scheme to JavaScript

Keyword: Compilers

Functional Description: Scm2JS is a Scheme to JavaScript compiler distributed under the GPL license. Even though much effort has been spent on being as close as possible to R5rs, we concentrated mainly on efficiency and interoperability. Usually Scm2JS produces JavaScript code that is comparable (in speed) to hand-written code. In order to achieve this performance, Scm2JS is not completely R5rs compliant. In particular it lacks exact numbers.

Interoperability with existing JavaScript code is ensured by a JavaScript-like dot-notation to access JavaScript objects and by a flexible symbol-resolution implementation.

Scm2JS is used on a daily basis within Hop, where it generates the code which is sent to the clients (web-browsers).

• Contact: Manuel Serrano

• URL: http://www-sop.inria.fr/indes/scheme2js/