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Here: https://github.com/sankho/FlatJS. Appears to be mostly inactive, little activity in a year except for a README update, but the name confusion is regrettable. Candidates for other names: - c.js, c++.js,...

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The current system with raw-memory arrays will not last. Having the length available is highly desirable and will be necessary to support multi-dimensional arrays. Technically it's not hard, just a...

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Experiment with 'this' inside methods

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Inside a method body, `this` refers to the class object. A SELF method call currently replaces SELF by the name of the class but it could instead use `this`. That...

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The flatjs code for the ray tracer is significantly slower in Chrome (on one core) than the plain JS code. This is remarkable - and it is the reason I'm...

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Allow structures to carry non-virtual methods

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The poster child for this is a `Lock` structure with methods called `acquire()` and `release()`, to be reused inside other objects without needing a separate heap allocation. In general this...

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Use case is that sometimes we want to use native syntax rather than the clunky type.Array.at and type.Array.setAt syntax, this might also yield a performance boost. Currently we can do...

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Suppose x and y are simd fields and v is some simd datum. Then this does not work: ``` SELF.x = SELF.y = v ``` The reason is that this...

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At the moment the syntax follows C. We should at least allow `$`, but ideally all unicode letters that are allowed by ECMAScript. This will change the hash algorithm quite...

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For non-qualified primitive fields we should allow `

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Overriding virtuals should have the same number of arguments as the methods they are overriding (including any rest argument). This requires some parsing.

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