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Javascript

Posted Dec 24, 2009 12:27 UTC (Thu) by markc (subscriber, #4419)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by Cato
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Yes, Javascript for the kernel. LUA might be lighter but no other scripting
language will ever have a chance of becoming universally acceptable in all
possible scriptable enviroments; browser DOM, server side, desktop and
console... so why not the kernel too.

GromJS is a 1.6Mb SpiderMonkey 1.7 implementation that provides both CGI and
console JS abilities plus system exec and utilities, file io, pipe io, SQL
interfaces and a really fast builtin NoSQL hash database. Hello! A non Java,
pure C, 1.6Mb executable for a SSJS CGI *AND* shell based JS engine!

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Javascript

Posted Dec 24, 2009 19:02 UTC (Thu) by maney (subscriber, #12630) [Link]

/me imagines the kernel developers boring out and tweaking a javascript engine. <toothy grin>

great idea!

Posted Dec 25, 2009 9:40 UTC (Fri) by ccyoung (guest, #16340) [Link]

actually a great idea - dom for the kernel - a place to hang everything meta plus a browser interface!

Javascript

Posted Dec 29, 2009 14:52 UTC (Tue) by Kamilion (subscriber, #42576) [Link]

Ohmigawd, thank you!
I've been trying to find a good way of messing around with javascript outside of a browser, looks like GromJS's console jscli will be the winner!