[fpc-pascal] First pas2js public release

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2018, Ingemar Ragnemalm wrote:

>
> An update on my tests with pas2js:
>
> I have overcome most problems now and am quite a bit happier with what I 
> see - and what I did see before was good!
>
> Reimar Grabowski asked for interactivity. Done!
>
> Myself, I wanted to reduce the amount of information, like file 
> references in the HTML file, because, yes, it does matter! And I wanted 
> to load sounds, and of course I, too, wanted interactivity! Done! Adding 
> missing methods, interfacing to more APIs (like audio), no problem! It 
> was surprisingly easy.
>
> Here is an updated version of the Santa animation:
>
> http://ragnemalm.se/images/santa/santa2.html
>
> and here is an (almost) fully working snake game:
>
> http://ragnemalm.se/images/santa/snake/snake.html

Nice :)

>
> I really enjoyed making these! My code gets more and more comfortable, 
> there is no problem hiding the JS libraries. Will I do that in the long 
> run? Well, I don't know but doing that can help me making the code portable.
>
> I also made some minor additions to Lightweight IDE, so now I edit, 
> compile and run directly from the IDE. "Run" passes the HTML to a web 
> browser.

Lazarus already has this too.

>
> I have implemented a different way to run animations, but still don't 
> know if it flickers on other platforms. On my Mac, there is no flicker 
> at all.
>
> For gaming and similar purposes, all I miss now is the ability to save 
> scores on file. For a wider range of applications, I want the ability to 
> download data to my local drive. I havn't considered the case of 
> communicating directly with some server.
>
> For being a preliminary "0." version, pas2js works wonderfully well!

Yes, the codebase that compiles with it is very large.

We're hoping to have it self-compiling someday.

Michael.