Assembly Language for the Web

viksoe.dk

35 points·soundsop··13 comments

Usually when people refer to "assembly language for the web" they're talking about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as the building blocks for higher abstractions. These guys took the phrase a bit more literally.

People should take that "assembly language" quip more seriously. Why are we still writing raw CSS?

We (http://280slides.com) have zero CSS, zero HTML (excluding the loading screen and landing page)

What are you using to generate your HTML and CSS? Haml and Sass or something else?

No, not even generated HTML or CSS.

HAML and SASS seem to provide a very thin abstraction; you're still basically writing HTML and CSS.

Our JavaScript framework builds everything via the DOM. But our application code doesn't touch the DOM either, it's all abstracted.

Is that a public framework, or something that you guys wrote internally?

I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or hurl.

This guy http://timhatch.com/projects/jsassembly/index.html implemented an x86 assembly interpreter in JavaScript that runs in the browser.

I've seen a couple of similar projecs out there (mainly MIPS). I started writing one for MIPS when I was taking a computer architecture course so that I didn't have to install SPIM, but eventually lost interest.

That is pretty neat, though.

What a waste of time! I'm forced to say.

someone should code a wiki using this ... :P

someone would rather die ;)

Haaaaa!!!!!!! This is the greatest use of technology ever!

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