[antlr-interest] JavaScript Target - first release

[Terence Parr]

Great news, Joey!  Thanks...To make things easier, I just made a daily  
snapshot, which includes all targets:

http://www.antlr.org/download/build/antlr-2008-08-03.16.tar.gz

Ter

On Aug 3, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Joey Hurst wrote:

> The first release of the ANTLR JavaScript target is now available.
> You can download either a pre-compiled version (suggested) or the raw
> source:
> http://antlr-javascript.googlecode.com/files/antlr-javascript-0.0.1-compiled.zip
> http://antlr-javascript.googlecode.com/files/antlr-javascript-0.0.1-src.zip
>
> If you download the source distribution, build instructions can be
> found here: http://code.google.com/p/antlr-javascript/wiki/BuildingANTLRJavaScriptTarget
>
> To see the code in action you can open one of the example web pages in
> runtime/JavaScript/examples/.  Note that the larger examples run very
> slow in Internet Explorer at the moment, so I'd suggest using a faster
> browser like FireFox or Safari (I'm working on performance
> improvements).  The runtime/JavaScript/tests/functional directory also
> has some good examples.
>
> If you have some spare time and know a thing or two about JavaScript
> I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and send some feedback
> (either to me or the antlr-javascript mailing list -
> http://groups.google.com/group/antlr-javascript ).
>
> Although the JS target is passing a large suite of tests at the
> moment, I'd still consider this alpha software because the API will
> probably change a bit before the first public release.
>
> One final note: the downloads linked above are sync-ed with the 3.1b2
> release of the main ANTLR distribution.
>
> Thanks,
> Joey Hurst