Feature: we should implament http and net stack a bit

[frank-dspeed]

this would be really usefull if it would be able to implament some standard stuff like a basic http request and response handling or a net socket.

[pitust]

I agree, however it could also be useful to just write C FFI/C declarations.

[andrei-markeev]

http and sockets are target specific.

how I see it:

1. there's TS2C transpiler (this project) which is a generic transpiler that doesn't know anything about target platform
2. there are also TS2C target projects that handle platform-specific stuff, for example there's currently one example target - ESP32: https://github.com/andrei-markeev/ts2c-target-esp-idf (WIP)
3. then in addition to this, there might be some helper wrappers that simplify access to target platform features. for example it might be implementation of fetch for ESP32 with same syntax as the fetch we have in browser

so what you are suggesting is rather p.3

I mean, not against it at all, but for now I'm concentrating on the transpiler part, and it is a gigantic effort to implement even just the ES3 spec...

[pitust]

Well, After implementing ES3, you can run babel and typescript to turn ESnext to ES3.
Also, I think I found some issues and have fixes for them but I patched my local ts2c implementation so IDK. Also, I have came up with a series of tricks to get 64-bit intagers and C FFI for use in an OS, see js-os. It also patches the input JS and the ouput C quite a bit.

[andrei-markeev]

interesting project! 👍

yes, basically this patching as in cpatch.js is more or less what a TSC target would do.

C FFI is also done in TSC target, already possible via type definitions, example here: https://github.com/andrei-markeev/ts2c-target-esp-idf/tree/master/headers