On May 14, 2025, at 14:45, Guenther Sohler via Discuss discuss@lists.openscad.org wrote:
Marius, I actually have already a branch with javascript and I am happy to push it further.
However, there is also one big disadvantage to consider:
Javascript does not support named parameters like openscad and python do.
Instead, function calls have only default parameters at most which limits
the option , how primitive calls can be expressed.
I do have experience with JavaScript embedding in C++ apps :)
Establishing a function/module call paradigm will be important. In JS, it’s also common to use config objects rather than unnamed parameters for such things.
I don’t have time to pursue this until after next release, so I’ll let this sleep for the time being.
-Marius
> On May 14, 2025, at 14:45, Guenther Sohler via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote:
>
> Marius, I actually have already a branch with javascript and I am happy to push it further.
> However, there is also one big disadvantage to consider:
> Javascript does not support named parameters like openscad and python do.
> Instead, function calls have only default parameters at most which limits
> the option , how primitive calls can be expressed.
>
I do have experience with JavaScript embedding in C++ apps :)
Establishing a function/module call paradigm will be important. In JS, it’s also common to use config objects rather than unnamed parameters for such things.
I don’t have time to pursue this until after next release, so I’ll let this sleep for the time being.
-Marius
