From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 10:05:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2e253d0-a21d-4040-be76-7c2d02789830@q36g2000prg.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2wrujhwss.fsf@gmail.com
LanX [2010-06-01 01:33+0200] writes:
«
I really enjoyed reading this blog on ejacs
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html
»
On Jun 1, 3:28 am, Helmut Eller <eller.hel...@gmail.com> wrote:
«Why didn't he write the Javascript interpreter in Javascript? Or why
did he write a Javascript interpreter at all?»
Gah. Apparently you haven't spend much time reading the article.
Steve created it because he's creating a javascript mode for emacs,
with the goal of it being a full IDE beating any other javascript
IDEs.
That mode eventually became js2-mode. The js interpreter engine was a
discarded by-product, because he ends up writing another engine. The
name “ejacs” was attached to it later, and became a separate project,
currently of little practical use.
Steve has hinted in his blog, that he has the goal of making js a
alternative to elisp for extending emacs.
> The only interesting
> place to run and debug Javascript is inside a browser with complete DOM
> access anyway.
yes but not really. JS as a scripting lang is used in lots of
applications, in Flash, and lots others. (see wikipedia for full
list) Basically, it has became practically what Scheme used to be or
envisioned to be in academia, and replaced what perl, tcl, tried to be
in the industry in the 1990s.
Personally i think that's very good.
See:
• Proliferation of Computing Languages
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/new_langs.html
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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2010-05-31 15:44 ` About Emacs Modernisation Project Pascal J. Bourguignon
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2010-05-31 19:41 ` Alessandro Piras
[not found] ` <c41c63c0-b934-442d-8385-1abff6ab9b0b@s41g2000vba.googlegroups.com>
2010-06-01 0:40 ` Alessandro Piras
2010-06-02 6:07 ` Xah Lee
[not found] ` <87iq63wsvt.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>
2010-06-01 0:06 ` LanX
2010-06-01 8:44 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-01 11:19 ` LanX
2010-06-01 12:56 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-02 6:17 ` Xah Lee
[not found] ` <87ljazofkn.fsf@rapttech.com.au>
2010-05-31 23:33 ` LanX
2010-06-01 10:28 ` Helmut Eller
2010-06-01 11:27 ` LanX
2010-06-01 12:29 ` Helmut Eller
2010-06-01 12:55 ` LanX
2010-06-01 12:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-01 12:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-02 17:05 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2010-06-02 17:50 ` Helmut Eller
[not found] ` <87r5krh3e0.fsf@unm.edu>
2010-06-01 8:40 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-01 17:34 ` rustom
2010-06-02 12:47 ` B. T. Raven
2010-06-02 17:20 ` rustom
2010-06-01 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-06-01 23:22 ` LanX
[not found] ` <slrni0b8nm.9k6.bergv@u00.math.uiuc.edu>
2010-06-02 11:39 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <e73e123d-3f0c-4a6f-bbac-b91fb71bf07d@f14g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>
2010-06-03 9:26 ` Emulating namespaces Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-03 15:33 ` LanX
2010-06-03 17:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <87mxvegz12.fsf@unm.edu>
2010-06-01 23:36 ` About Emacs Modernisation Project Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-06-02 5:58 ` Evans Winner
2010-06-04 18:33 ` Joseph Brenner
2010-06-05 2:55 ` Tim X
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