port the code to be clojurescript and self-host friendly

[viebel]

It would be great to be able to run LaTTE in the browser with the klipse plugin for instance. For that purpose, one needs to port the code to clojurescript (with cljc) and also make it compatible with self-host (a.k.a. bootstraped) clojurescript.

[viebel]

@fredokun I have start to work on the port of LaTTE here but it's quite hard.

[fredokun]

Wow! You've started! Sadly I cannot look at this closely at the moment, but I can create a branch "cljs" and when time permits try to follow what you are doing. Is there a place to learn about "self-host-friendliness" ? (One of the important part of LaTTe is that the proofs are checked at macro-expansion time, but this requirement could be released for the specific need of in-browser evaluation)

[fredokun]

Thinking about this... I think the top-level forms should be somewhat different in the cljs case. maybe the kernel should go in a separate repo. (I will consider this in time...).

[viebel]

Why the top level forms should be different in cljs?

[fredokun]

Well, I think the semantics of the 'clj/jvm' and the 'cljs/klipse' workflows should be slightly different. Klipse would be mainly to make "live mathematics" webpages whereas the main objective of "plain" LaTTe is to create mathematical libraries (hopefully .cljc libraries so that everything is compatible). But you know much better about the cljs/klipse part so I will not take any action for now ;-). (and what about the cljs branch? I can make you a collaborator ...)

[viebel]

Cljs braxh is a good idea. Please call it self-host

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Well, I think the semantics of the 'clj/jvm' and the 'cljs/klipse' workflows should be slightly different. Klipse would be mainly to make "live mathematics" webpages whereas the main objective of "plain" LaTTe is to create mathematical libraries (hopefully .cljc libraries so that everything is compatible). But you know much better about the cljs/klipse part so I will not take any action for now ;-). (and what about the cljs branch? I can make you a collaborator ...)

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[fredokun]

I think because of the heavy use of macro-expansion for checking proof (proofs are checked at compile-time) I think it's difficult to port LaTTe as it is... But I have the idea of a port of just the kernel and then work on clojurescript (and Klipse) specific top level forms (only for making interactive documents, but the sharing of libraries might be a problem...).

[viebel]

I'd love to help porting the kernel.

And good luck for EuroClojure!

[fredokun]

I am finding some spare time to rewrite the LaTTe kernel in a cljs-friendly way. This happens at: https://github.com/latte-central/latte-kernel.