JS implementation available?

[tomyo]

Hi! I like a lot the way djot language is defined, and I would like to try it out in web projects.

Is there a JS implementation? If not, i'm happy to collaborate => suggestions welcome.

Thanks!

[jgm]

No, there isn't, just the Lua. It should be possible to write a JS implementation that closely follows the Lua implementation, so if you'd like to try this, be my guest!

Some notes on where I think the difficulties would lie:

• the Lua implementation operates with byte indices into the input string (because it's faster that way, and Lua uses bytestrings). In JS it would be easier to operate with character indices.
• I think there are tools for automatically translating Lua -> JS, but the tool I'm familiar with doesn't translate use of Lua pattern syntax, which is used heavily in this implementation.

[mandolyte]

Perhaps this should be moved over to discussions. I could probably donate a few hours (2-4h) on this. I've also searched for Lua to JS tools; many seemed to be abandoned. But this could be a first step - investigate what is available.