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Re: Extending JavaScript (C lib)

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Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> I am slowly discovering the JavaScript world, and I would like to
> know how I can extend JavaScript to use one of my custom C lib. I 
> have seen dozens of different solutions (libffi, mosync, 
> js-ctypes...) [ ... ]

I haven't done C in years, and never done very much with it, so my
answer might not be what you're looking for.

I don't think you're going to able to do this, though.  Not if you're
trying to run in a browser environment.  There are too many different
browsers, each with its proprietary implementation of ECMAScript.

Here is a case where I agree wholeheartedly with an admonition Thomas
Lahn often makes in this group.  There simply is no single "Javascript"
for you to extend.

If you ending working in a more homogeneous environment, then things
might be a bit different.  For instance, node, the server-side 
Javascript environment, runs inside Google's V8 engine.  You could
extend that, and use your extended version fairly successfully, I would
think.  But then you could probably only use your code under servers
under your direct control, where you could install your altered version
of node.

So what sort of extensions are you trying to make to the language?  Are 
there good reasons you can't implement the things you want in the 
language itself?

  -- Scott

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Extending JavaScript (C lib) mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com - 2012-07-06 00:32 -0700
  Re: Extending JavaScript (C lib) "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-07-06 07:57 +0000
    Re: Extending JavaScript (C lib) "Scott Sauyet" <3103invalid@webnews.fastusenet.org> - 2012-07-06 12:05 +0000
      Re: Extending JavaScript (C lib) Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-07-06 15:05 +0200
  Re: Extending JavaScript (C lib) "Scott Sauyet" <3103invalid@webnews.fastusenet.org> - 2012-07-06 12:31 +0000
    Re: Extending JavaScript (C lib) mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com - 2012-07-06 06:30 -0700
      Re: Extending JavaScript (C lib) "Scott Sauyet" <3103invalid@webnews.fastusenet.org> - 2012-07-06 14:36 +0000
      Re: Extending JavaScript (C lib) "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2012-07-06 11:12 -0700
  Re: Extending JavaScript (C lib) Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-07-09 11:37 +0200

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