Re: About Emacs Modernisation Project

[Helmut Eller]

* Xah Lee [2010-06-02 19:05+0200] writes:

> 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.

So it turned out that writing a JS interpreter that runs inside Emacs is
totally useless.  I could have told him that before.

Helmut