This document explains how to embed SpiderMonkey, the Mozilla
JavaScript engine, in your C/C++ program.
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_C_Engine_Embedder's_Guide
JavaScript is widely used for client-side scripts that run in the
browser. But Mozilla's JavaScript engine is a library that can be
linked into any C/C++ program, not just a browser. Many applications
can benefit from scripting. These programs can execute JavaScript code
from C using the SpiderMonkey API.


and the new mozilla java script engine
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/08/tracemonkey_javascript_lightsp.html
http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=624

On 9/3/08, marius popa <mapopa@...> wrote:
> On 9/3/08, Jim Starkey <jstarkey@...> wrote:
>> marius popa wrote:
>>> I know about java script that can run on java machine so it might run
>>> in firebird too (in the close future)
>>> http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/
>>>
>>> but the new kid on the block is v8 from google but it needs to be
>>> integrated
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/apis/v8/intro.html
>>>
>>> seems to be quite fast at java script with the v8 engine
>>> http://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/google-chromes-need-for-speed_02.html
>>>
>>>
>> Doable, yes. But why? The main claim to Javascript is its ability to
>> interact with the document object model (DOM) of a browser which, of
>> course, neither exists nor has a counter part in the server. It is
>> cheap to parse and interpret and runs in a sandbox, all good things for
>> an embedded language. So my question is "why Javascript?" What
>> problems does it address/solve?
>>
>
> majority of the applications are written for web
> and usualy anyone can learn javascript , is an language present in all
> browsers
> usually is easier to learn an scripting language than an traditional
> one (java, c++)
> this is why php/ruby/python are used everywhere in web2.0 world
> http://www.cio.com/article/446829/PHP_JavaScript_Ruby_Perl_Python_and_Tcl_Today_The_State_of_the_Scripting_Universe?contentId=446829&slug=&
> maybe is better to help the writing of safe extensions and classes in
> javascript
> without precompiling them
> i think it's an model validated by firefox , write an engine and add
> javascript/xul extension mechanism so is a little hard now to live
> without them
> in my case firebug, delicious , livehttp headers ...
> but also any other browser can add scripting languages to it
> another example is epiphany with python based extensions
>
> so the base rule if you have an engine is better to have an scripting
> extension language and is better to be easy to learn
> the jump from html to javacript or is easy
> any modern browser has an javascript compiler included , in fact i use
> it right now from the gmail interface ...
>
> now put me to compile and set the java package classes and paths and
> variables ...
> and god knows if the compiler error trace is longer than my LCD screen
> even sun/microsoft are moving towards dynamic languages
>
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