Subj : Menushell.js
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 24 2020 08:09 pm

  Re: Menushell.js
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Mon Aug 24 2020 06:34 pm

 >   Re: Menushell.js
 >   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Aug 24 2020 04:08 pm
 >
 >  >> experienced with interacting with a web page DOM using JS.  However I
 >  >> have embedded JS into a couple of C++ projects at one of my previous
 >  >> jobs, which was interesting.
 >
 >  DM> Cool - which JS engine/library did you/they use?
 >
 > It was the Mozilla JavaScript engine.  Initially I tried using Google's JS
 > engine, but it seemed a bit complicated to embed.  Then I looked at
 > Mozilla's JS engine (I was inspired to use it due to Synchronet), and I was
 > able to embed Mozilla's JS engine into a couple of C++ test applications.

Cool. What version of SpiderMonkey, if you remember?

I embedded SpiderMonkey into a set-top box test application (at work) with a web UI back in the early 2000's, about the same time I chose it for Synchronet's FTP server and eventually everything else.

And now, I think it's about time to remove JS support from Synchronet's FTP server! :-)

 > We also had a version of that project supporting iOS and Mac OS X, and we
 > found that Apple's XCode included an embedded JS engine, so we used Apple's
 > included JS engine for that stuff.  I don't remember if that JS engine was
 > made by Apple or if they had included another JS engine.  It may have been
 > Google's JS engine or Mozilla, but I don't remember for sure.

Ah, cool. I might take a look at v8 again, but I'm planning to update to the latest SpiderMonkey at some point, which is expected to be painful.

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