Emscripten is a very cool piece of technology developed by Alon Zakai; a researcher at Mozilla. Its purpose is to serve as a backend to the LLVM compiler, translating LLVM intermediary code to JavaScript. This allows almost any code written for languages capable of targeting LLVM to be ported to JavaScript.

Ahh, the obligatory 'hello world' first post on this blog. I'm still configuring this to get it exactly how I want, but Jekyll Now has proven very easy to work with.