[ruswick]

This is fascinating, but I just can't discern a practical purpose.

The novelty of the "I just converted this huge piece of software written in c or machine code into JS" type of post usually extends only to the title. The link itself generally serves only to evoke a profound "WTF" (and in this case took upwards of 40 seconds to load.)

Although I appreciate the undertaking of compiling prodigious libraries, drivers, etc. into JS, I don't see practical value in the product of said undertaking.

The fact that this practice has proliferated throughout HN recently is odd. This kind of thing is certainly remarkable, but it doesn't do anything.

[bpatrianakos]

You're 100% right but you're missing something here. Something like this takes skill and builds skill and when you've finished you just want to show it off. And it really is impressive! Sure, it has no practical application itself but I'm sure that some piece of this or some technique used in porting it to JS will have some practical value somewhere. Sometimes the practical is born from the impractical.

I guess what I'm saying is why does it need to do anything or be practical? Cool stuff is just cool sometimes.

[motvbi]

Windows script host (cscript) allows you to execute js files in addition to vbscript (vbs). This is particularly useful in extending the functionality of batch files. This can be useful in a lot of circumstances build process, installation etc.

[pharrington]

This is for Node.js, not host scripts. It uses node-ffi.

[alter8]

Why did you copy the [dead] post from sarvesh (hellbanned 3 years ago) without attribution? Are you him?

[alter8]

sarvesh, you were hellbanned more than 3 years ago. His post:

Windows script host (cscript) allows you to execute js files in addition to vbscript (vbs). This is particularly useful in extending the functionality of batch files. This can be useful in a lot of circumstances build process, installation etc.