Subj : Telegram and JavaScript
To   : John Dovey
From : echicken
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 03:25:20

  Re: Telegram and JavaScript
  By: John Dovey to All on Thu Apr 21 2022 16:08:34

 JD> Telegram has just updated their Bit spec, and it's now possible to
 JD> run/launch a JavaScript app directly from the client. 

I'd be curious to know more about what this actually means. Got a link?

 JD> I'm not much of a JavaScript person, but glancing quickly at the spec and
 JD> some examples, it occurs to me that one of the gurus in the area could
 JD> possibly port a lot of the functionality of SBBS across. 

Porting a Synchronet JS module to some other JS environment means that basically all of this becomes unavailable:

https://synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html

The script needs to be updated to use whatever analagous things exist on the target platform. That's fairly straightforward when it comes to stuff like the File and Socket classes, the global methods, and some of the console methods, but will get trickier when you get into users, messages, files, etc.

The tricky stuff is often also the reason for the script existing in the first place. If you're writing a script for Synchronet, there's a good chance it's going to access a bunch of BBS-specific data that won't exist on some other platform.

 JD> This probably fits better in Future4Fido, but figured I'd mention here.

The FTN stuff might be easier to port, actually, but I'm trying to picture what purpose it would serve when running ... in the Telegram app, I gather? Is it useful to run a binkp mailer inside that app, for example?
  
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