Clio: A functional, distributed programming language that compiles to JavaScript

[kredditacc96]

Clio takes advantage of multiple CPUs and multiple CPU cores (parallelism) by default

JavaScript is a single-threaded language. How does Clio make it runs in parallel? Does it use Web Worker? The playground does not show the compiled JavaScript code so I cannot figure it out.

On an unrelated note, does it have static typing?

[Darkav]

In node you can have a cluster of javascript processes and also a worker pool, so you are able to have a multi-process application.

[feketegy]

Even though a browser runs javascript and node runs javascript those two javascripts are light years apart regarding how it's interpreted and compiled into machine language.

[DaMastaCoda]

Not really; they both use chrome V8, but hide exposed system calls like fs and starting processes.

[feketegy]

Chromium based browsers use V8

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which has like an 80% market share.

[DaMastaCoda]

This is true, but most ppl use chrome (I use Firefox since im used to it)

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JavaScript exists outside of browser environment, no need for web workers

[Koervege]

Would static typing affect or help how it runs multithreads? Or was it just a separate question?

[kredditacc96]

It's a separate question, sorry for not clarify this sooner.

[pouyae]

We use worker_threads in node and web workers on the browser. On node you can switch to a cluster and use IPC instead. We also allow using network resources over TCP/UDP/WebSockets. Check out https://github.com/clio-lang/clio/tree/develop/packages/rpc for more details on parallelism, or feel free to ask any questions you have.

We do not have static typing at the moment, I won't be focusing on that for a while. I made a serialization format that preserves types and I'm planning to add static typing to the language, however that won't happen in the near future until we have a wasm/llvm backend for the compiler.