From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!JUN8/iIzeA71QWaIWFKODA.user.gioia.aioe.org.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Luke A. Guest" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Any chance of programming a web frontend in Ada 2012? Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 14:20:46 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: JUN8/iIzeA71QWaIWFKODA.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 Content-Language: en-GB X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62135 List-Id: On 08/06/2021 09:56, Marius Amado-Alves wrote: > It seems that currently the only languages web browsers execute reliably are JavaScript and JBC (Java Byte Code) , with WASM (Web Assembly) soon to join the group. > > Is there a way to program a web frontend in Ada 2012, maybe by translation to one of the above languages? > > (Preferably with a binding to the DOM and the BOM.) > > (Maybe via LLVM? GNAT already generates LLVM, right?) > > Thanks a lot. > There's always been CGI, there is a FastCGI implementation, my SCGI is nowhere near complete, and may as well be dead tbh.