• Benji Smith (13/13) Mar 17 2003 Walter,
• Ilya Minkov (21/41) Mar 17 2003 I've just stumbled over a couple of alternatives which might be worth
• Ilya Minkov (22/46) Mar 18 2003 A couple more alternatives came over my way.
• Walter (9/22) Mar 17 2003 The project is just at the concept stage at the moment.

Benji Smith <Benji_member pathlink.com> writes:

Walter,

You posted a message to this newsgroup in June 2002 (I think) that said you were
planning on developing a release of the dmdscript engine that would allow it to
be 
embedded in other applications.

I'm just checking the status of this project.

I'd like to use ECMAScript to automate an application that I'm developing. I was
planning on using the mozilla spidermonkey engine, but I'm intrigued by the
prospect of using dmdscript instead. Especially since I'm using the D language
to develop my application, and I expect there will be (at least slightly) better
language integreation and (certainly) better developer support.

Thanks,

--Benji Smith

Ilya Minkov <midiclub 8ung.at> writes:

I've just stumbled over a couple of alternatives which might be worth 
considering. I haven't tried them myself though.

---8<---
ferite is a lighweight, portable, threadsafe scripting engine with a 
language very similiar to Java, C, PHP, and Perl. It is fast, has a very 
small footprint, and is object-oriented. It is designed to be modular 
and embeddable in other applications.
--->8---
	
---8<---
ObjectScript is a general purpose object-oriented programming language. 
It is designed to be simple to learn, easy to use, yet still powerful, 
combining the convenience of an interactive interpreter with many of the 
features of Java.
--->8---

It's just a coinsidense that i came across them. I don't have the links, 
but you can google for them or search SouceForge - i've found them 
there. At least they could be less monsterous than that mozilla thingy. 
And prabably faster... a speed comparison would be interesting.

-i.


Benji Smith wrote:
 Walter,
 
 You posted a message to this newsgroup in June 2002 (I think) that said you
were
 planning on developing a release of the dmdscript engine that would allow it to
 be 
 embedded in other applications.
 
 I'm just checking the status of this project.
 
 I'd like to use ECMAScript to automate an application that I'm developing. I
was
 planning on using the mozilla spidermonkey engine, but I'm intrigued by the
 prospect of using dmdscript instead. Especially since I'm using the D language
 to develop my application, and I expect there will be (at least slightly)
better
 language integreation and (certainly) better developer support.
 
 Thanks,
 
 --Benji Smith
 
 

Ilya Minkov <midiclub 8ung.at> writes:

A couple more alternatives came over my way.

---8<---
C-smile OOL is a scripting language with C++-like grammar. It has 
compiler, VM running bytecodes and C++ extendible runtime. Intended to 
run in standlone and embedded mode.
--->8---
(somewhere in the debris of sourceforge)

---8<---
NJS is an independent implementation of the JavaScript language [...]. 
It is designed to be re-entrant, extendible, fast, and programmable.
--->8---
http://www.bbassett.net/njs/

The last one is particularly interesting, since it's a rival to 
DMDScript. It is not to be confused with the Mozilla's implementation, 
and should be better, though not 100% compatible. The source tarball is 
only little larger than half-meg, and includes the bytecode compiler, 
executors, utilities and a testsuit. It is written in C and in part in 
JavaScript. The JavaScript part is compiled into its own bytecode and 
included into the C source as array literal. :)

License: LGPL.

-i.

Ilya Minkov wrote:
 I've just stumbled over a couple of alternatives which might be worth 
 considering. I haven't tried them myself though.
 
 ---8<---
 ferite is a lighweight, portable, threadsafe scripting engine with a 
 language very similiar to Java, C, PHP, and Perl. It is fast, has a very 
 small footprint, and is object-oriented. It is designed to be modular 
 and embeddable in other applications.
 --->8---
     
 ---8<---
 ObjectScript is a general purpose object-oriented programming language. 
 It is designed to be simple to learn, easy to use, yet still powerful, 
 combining the convenience of an interactive interpreter with many of the 
 features of Java.
 --->8---
 
 It's just a coinsidense that i came across them. I don't have the links, 
 but you can google for them or search SouceForge - i've found them 
 there. At least they could be less monsterous than that mozilla thingy. 
 And prabably faster... a speed comparison would be interesting.
 
 -i.
 

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

The project is just at the concept stage at the moment.

"Benji Smith" <Benji_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
news:b557fg$2aa1$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Walter,

 You posted a message to this newsgroup in June 2002 (I think) that said

you were
 planning on developing a release of the dmdscript engine that would allow

it to
 be
 embedded in other applications.

 I'm just checking the status of this project.

 I'd like to use ECMAScript to automate an application that I'm developing.

I was
 planning on using the mozilla spidermonkey engine, but I'm intrigued by

the
 prospect of using dmdscript instead. Especially since I'm using the D

language
 to develop my application, and I expect there will be (at least slightly)

better
 language integreation and (certainly) better developer support.

 Thanks,

 --Benji Smith