XP on NodeJS: Class constants, annotations, stacktraces

at 2012-03-21 in Language, Experiments by friebe (0 comments)

More work has been put into the XP on NodeJS experiment: The compiler now knows how to correctly emit class constants and annotations, and a couple of minor bugs have been fixed. The bigger efforts have gone into stabilizing the XP "Microkernel" (which is what I've decied to call the miniature XP Framework implementation written in JavaScript and adopted to NodeJS as well as Windows Scripting Host):

We're finally getting inheritance right (or are we ? - )?
Class path is now assembled via class.pth files
Classes can reside freely inside any of the class path elements
Stack traces are now shown, including method names and arguments
Parent class reflection now works
The entry point scripts (tools/node.js and tools/cscript.js) are now generated from a common base
When these are invoked without arguments, they show version and classpath info

Here's something for you visually oriented people:

Screenshot

Finally, now, also the emitter dictates the file extension instead of it being hardcoded, so compiling is now completely hassle-free, no more moving the generated .class.php files around.

To get started, visit https://github.com/thekid/xp-js !

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