glutock wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I live coding in assembly for the NES, but I thought the idea of using JS for that was fun. And it seems to work. Well I guess you'll be quickly limited though ...
I guess I can see any number of these languages as being potentially a powerful preprocessor for assembly, that's basically what these things are I suppose. What's really interesting to me is observing which approaches actually become commonplace in the community. It seems like most of the high-level experiments with python, lisp, js, etc. remain mostly curiosities or only used by one or two people. Much like I might write a set of ca65 macros specific to how I do things that nobody else would want to use...
It seems that one so frequently must understand the low level details anyway that it is hard to imagine one of these high-level preprocessors providing enough more benefit than say CA65 macros that it would be worth abandoning current development tools.