Is it possible for Mercury to compile to Javascript?

Question

Is it possible for Mercury to compile to Javascript?

Closed this issue 6 years ago · 2 comments

I know that Mercury currently does not support that language, but in theory is it possible to compile to an interpreted language like Javascript, Python, or PHP?

Answer 1 · 2019-03-24T09:47:06.000Z

Yes, of course; any Turing-complete language can be compiled to any other Turing-complete language. Whether it is a good idea is a different question.

Answer 2 · 2024-05-03T18:36:47.000Z

Note for my fellow travellers finding this place in search for Mercury for the web:
There was an attempt at Mercury to WebAssembly compilation in 2020: see the mailing list archives