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by brent_noorda
1405 days ago
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Because JavaScript happened to be the language we at Nombas implemented in our "robust and predictable" engine. If a, e.g., python or TcL engine were as solid at the time for a can't-fail embedded engine, they could have happily used that. |
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Half of my question was surprise, because I would have thought something like Common Lisp, Erlang, Chez Scheme, Guile Scheme, Chicken Scheme would have been interesting choices. Despite being compiled they have various support for interpreters, embedding, and live update / hot reload of code.
The other half was curiosity because I just didn’t know why JavaScript would be chosen and would like to know. (Hence my question.)
You should post here as your own post about the project. That would be interesting.
And congratulations on having some code running on JWST. It’s gotta be uniquely thrilling.