This is really cool, and it's the direction my project (with a large scope) will eventually go in. I already have a text editing component and highlighting working using OpenGL, but it needs updating to not use immediate mode so it can run in WebGL too.
Thanks. You can see it at https://github.com/shurcooL/Conception-go#screenshot, but it's less than 10% finished at this point. Everything you see is rendered in OpenGL. The text editing component has syntax and diff highlighting support.
It's written in Go, but I'm planning to have it running in the browser by compiling Go to JS and using OpenGL bindings with two backends: WebGL and OpenGL.
In terms of usability, it's nothing more than a complicated tech demo atm; I need to figure out its future direction.
I thought I recognized your user name. I had looked at Conception a little while ago. It's a neat project and I'm looking forward to seeing more of what you do with it.
Yeah, I have written everything so far in plain JavaScript. I've been considering something else, but all of the available options seem a tad... monolithic.
If I'm going to not-javascript, then I think the answer is to go to something that is completely type safe and static, instead. I'd really like to be able to write-once-and-run-desktop-and-browser. I used to do C++, and now there is Emscripten, but I'd really rather not get back into C++ again. Go looked interesting, and there seems to already be a fair amount of work towards transpiling to JS. Rust looks particularly interesting, especially with the lack of implicit garbage collector, but from the little I've read, it seems Emscripten doesn't work that well with it.
> If I'm going to not-javascript, then I think the answer is to go to something that is completely type safe and static, instead. I'd really like to be able to write-once-and-run-desktop-and-browser. I used to do C++, and now there is Emscripten, but I'd really rather not get back into C++ again.
I agree completely, about type safe, static types, and not wanting to get back to the mess of C++ (header files, makefiles, ifdefs, complexity, etc.).
Which is why I think Go fits the bill so well.
> Go looked interesting, and there seems to already be a fair amount of work towards transpiling to JS.
There is indeed. I've already done quite a lot with it, but with smaller side projects for now. That's where I gained the confidence and I will work towards applying it to my main projects now.
