A few decades ago, I wanted to perl-swig the javascripting for vague hording applications. but then failed miserably... We did not have all this help : < https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey/JSAPI_User_Guide > at hand !

now I have time to mess with that. but then, trying the joys of JavaScript-1.16+mozjs185, I encounter too many bugs and nasties, and an ultimate frustration when rewarded by SIGVEC messages and showers of core dumps while objects instantiating.

but then JSPL-1.08_1 prooved more docile and compliant to my deeds. I even started pinching some code from it, and stuffing if back to JavaScript. but hey...stop. tingle and come questions... Shouldn't JavaScript be more robust?

somewhat both packages are old, and quietly abandoned on CPAN. unless ActiveState has commercial interests to keep it so, my guts tells me that JSPL is the package to back up.

so, back to the monks, here are my questions:

are they out there, new trendy marriages with SpiderMonkey and Perl ?

if not, would it be worth evolving JSPL rather than JavaScript (sorry) ?

or forget perl and try python (just teasing, like perl too much to do that)?

thanks.

In reply to JSPL vs JavaScript ...and other questions by ptizoom

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