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Js-Ext (BSD license) is another preprocessor, which adds syntactic sugar to the regular JavaScript. It has some cool features like macros or classes, some of them are described below.

Js-Ext written in Js-Ext and runs on Node.js.

Usage

Coming soon.

Features

1. Macros
/*
	Executing on preprocessing.
*/

@macro const 20;

console.log (@const);

@macro loadFromFile:raw (file, callback){
	fs.readFile (file, function (error, data){
		if (!error)
			callback ('console.log (' + JSON.stringify (data) + ');');
		else
			callback ('');
	});
}

@loadFromFile ('../release-notes.txt');
2. Classes
/*
	Almost like Java classes; will be converted to JavaScript prototypes.
*/

static class Previous {
	public var value = 'valueFromPrevious';

	public staticMethod ()
		return 'Hello from Previous';
}

class Parent {
	static public parentStaticField = Previous.value;

	protected parentField = 'protected field';
	
	private get (){
		console.log (parentStaticField);
	}
	
	(){
		console.log ('Parent constructor');
		get ();
	}
}

class Child extends Parent {
	external public class InnerClass {
		public get currentTime (){
			return Date.now();
		}

		/* or more shorter way */
		public get currentTimeShorter Date.now();

		public toString(){
			return '[InnerClass]';
		}
	}

	static {
		parentStaticField = 'modified';
	}

	var value;
	
	(value){
		this.value = value;
		console.log (
			'Child constructor', 
			parentField, 
			Previous.staticMethod (),
			new InnerClass().currentTime);
	}
}

console.log (new Child () instanceof Parent, new Child.InnerClass());

3. Build-in string formatting

/*
	Will be transformed to concatenation.
*/

console.log ('Something: %0, "%1", (%2), \'%3\'.' (a, b, c, d));

4. Shorter ways to write

[ 1 .. 10 ] 				 	// Array with elements from 1 to 10.
	.map (lambda arg * 2) 	  	// Shorter way to create anonymous function.
	.concat (lambda (a, b){     // Lambdas can have arguments and body.
		... 					// Operator from Perl.
	}); 
	
function sqr (v)				// Functions can contain only one statement.
	v * v;

function test (a = 100, b){		// And can have default values of arguments.

	try 						// In my opinion, it is convenient,
		throw new Error (); 	// but use it carefully.
		
	try 						// This one is better.
		throw new Error ();
	catch
		console.log (e);

}

for (var k, v in { 				// And new loops.
		a: 	1 					// Objects and arrays could be initialized without commas.
		b: 	2
		c: 	3
		d: 	4 
	})
	console.log (key + ' → ' + value); 

for (var v in-array [ 'a' .. 'z' ])
	console.log (v);

for (var i, v in-array [ 1 .. numberVariable ])
	console.log (i, v);
5. Asynchronous code
WIP
/*
	Will be flattened into subfunctions.
*/

function wait(delay, fn){
	setTimeout(fn, delay);
}

function calculateDelay(delay) async {
	var start = Date.now();
	async wait(delay);
	return Date.now() - start;
}

calculateDelay(1e3, function (result){
	console.log(result);
});

/* or even like this: */
(function () async {
	var result = async calculateDelay(1e3);
	console.log(result);
})();
6. Full backward compatibility with regular JavaScript Code
Of course, if you are not going to use such keywords as "uses", "class", "lambda" or something like this.

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