> I would like to know if anyone here but me is interested in the
> prospect of a general standard library for JavaScript, that would
> finally make JavaScript available as a general-purpose programming
> language?
I've been very interested in this in the past but have lacked time in
the last year or two to pursue it, especially as I've gotten more adept
with Python. There are other projects with some common pursuits:
http://code.google.com/p/jscsh/
http://code.google.com/p/jslibs/
The latter has many bindings available for external libraries/tookits,
but I haven't used it myself. I think that both are geared around
SpiderMonkey, as was my own project, xjs, which has not been released.
It would be nice if one could use the same shell and libraries with
a choice of back-end engines, especially for those running on an ABI
unsupported by v8. But that's probably a fairly thick layer that yields
little apparent progress for a while.
What xjs still has beyond the other implementations I've seen is the
ability to load native code extensions in runtime, as perl/python/ruby
can. Its shell is reasonable, but it lacks much of the general utility
of the other projects I've seen. I haven't earnestly worked on it in
several years. I began xjs because SpiderMonkey's shell at the time
was, frankly, kind of bad, and I wanted to do general-purpose scripting
with the ability to bind into external libraries written in C. Since
then SpiderMonkey's jssh has improved, but I still regret that it lacks
dynamic native code extensions.
To me, that is the most important task of any general JS shell project.
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