Re: Idle musings on doing E over again

On Oct 11, 2012, at 14:48, Bill Frantz wrote:

> I don't know about the issues with node.js, but it would be one 
> likely engine for a Javascript implementation.

Node.js is not a JavaScript implementation: it is a framework for writing servers which is written in JavaScript, specifically used with the JavaScript implementation V8. (I understand it includes native, er, C code to implement such things as file-system access.)

To run an E-on-JS in a command-line / posixish context we would likely be either using Node.js or using *the same techniques as* Node without using it as an implementation layer; I'm not sure which.

Disclaimer: I haven't actually studied Node.js in detail.

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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>