[Vm-dev] [VM-dev] Can we be a JavaScript engine?

[henry]

Personally I am looking for a distributable language, computable is Squeak and Java, as the basis for mobile code. Code should be relocatable between these environments, relying on promise-based IPC. Could JavaScript be the right answer? I wrote a JavaScript compiler in Java, since lost. Perhaps a restricted scope JavaScript would be helpful. Is there another language that would be more suitable for this promise-land? I agree, for myself performance is secondary to having mobile code between language environments.

Thank you.

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On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:44, Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2018-02-20 16:04 GMT+01:00 Clément Bera <bera.clement at gmail.com>:
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>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:56 PM, Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi.
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>>> It is just a question from the space :)
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>>> I wonder, can we be a JavaScript engine? Like replacing nodeJs with Pharo/Squeak.
>>> I imagine that JS prototypes can be easily supported by anonymous classes. What is missing?
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>> Not really. Efficient prototypes requires deep VM changes in memory representation of objects.
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> Performance is another question.
> But we can only measure it if we will be able to run JS code.
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>>> Best regards,
>>> Denis
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>> --
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>> Clément Béra
>> Pharo consortium engineer
>> https://clementbera.wordpress.com/
>> Bâtiment B 40, avenue Halley 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
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