Re: Pengine - the Prolog engine running SWISH

On 08/16/2013 01:50 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> 
> On 16/08/2013, at 2:08 AM, Michael Hendricks wrote:
>> I predict that Prolog web development will eventually settle on a good
>> Prolog engine written in Javascript that's code compatible with SWI-Prolog.
>> That would eliminate network latency, allow one to use SWI's extensive
>> library (at least the pure Prolog parts) and run the same code in both the
>> client and server.
> 
> My first reaction was "that's crazy".
> My second reaction was, "you know, given emscripten and Asm.js,
> that 'good Prolog engine written in Javascript' could *be* SWI Prolog".

How do you see that?  The code base is unusable as JS asks for a
quite different design than C.  A lot of the fun of SWI-Prolog comes
from its extensive libraries, many of which have C components.  Of
course you can copy goodies from SWI-Prolog.  There are more systems
with goodies to copy from though.

Note that a colleague of mine does a lot of app development and generally
claims you should not try to compute on the local device as that drains
the batteries really fast.  Now, I assume there is not a single truth
here ...

	Cheers --- Jan


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