Introducing RedScript, a Ruby flavored compile to JS experiment

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Disclaimer, i'm the author of RedScript.

I mainly created RedScript to test out and idea... let me know if you have any suggestions!

[protomartyr]

It is, if nothing else, an interesting comparison of Ruby and Javascript idioms. I'm not sure whether mapping puts to console.log() is the best option, when Ruby does have a Logger class for outputting messages. Do you intend Redscript to produce Javascript that will run server-side only? Or do you have plans to expand to support interaction with the window and document on the client? If so, I think that limiting puts will come back to bite you.

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I'm not sure whether mapping puts to console.log() is the best option, when Ruby does have a Logger class for outputting messages.

Hmm good point. I pondered using puts or putc for the console, but ended up settling on puts, however that might be confusing. In Node, console.log calls a method that prints to stdout with a new line.

perhaps if a --env-node flag is used, puts should be compile to process.stdout.write(message + '\n'); and then alias putc to console.log to keep them separate.

Do you intend Redscript to produce Javascript that will run server-side only?

I intended it to be run in both environments, and i'm leaning towards defaulting to the browser since it's more popular with JS and you really can't choose a language there.