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Re: Compilers for Javascript?

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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote on 23 Sep 2019 in 
comp.lang.javascript:

> "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> writes:
> 
>> groovee@cyberdude.com wrote on 23 Sep 2019 in comp.lang.javascript:
>>
>>> I was wondering if there were any COMPILERS for JS, that can make an
>>> executable? I came across this one, thought I'd tell yall about it (I've
>>> not used it myself yet): 
>>
>> Why and where would you need one?
> 
> That's an odd question, so I'm wondering if I've missed the point.  Are
> you talking specifically to the OP?  Are you stressing the "need"?  If
> neither, and you just meant why would anyone want one, I would have
> thought it's obvious.

Discussion is not about skipping what is obvious to someone.

One could "want" a compiler just for the fun of it,
but if it is not usefull outside the fun, 
I would call that: "no need".

Let's start with the "WHERE":

Javascript is used on many different platforms, and on its own misses the 
interfaces with the outside. So Javascript in a browser uses the DOM as 
input/output interface, Javascript in a specific text-editor only needs to 
interface with the text at hand, Javascript on a server, say in classic ASP, 
cannot interface the DOM or the user directly, Javascript in Cscript/Wscript 
again has a different interface, like the line-interface and the file-
interface.

Then The "WHY":

This depends on the answer to the first question, 
and then one should answer:

Is it about speed?
Is it about file-size?
Is it about obfuscation?
Etc.

So I think the question is not that odd,
and I doubt can be answered in general,
and in specific, say in a browser or in an editor, 
it probably is not usefull.

>> [Meaning, I don't think you would, but let's discuss that first.]

See, this was part of the answer. 

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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Compilers for Javascript? groovee@cyberdude.com - 2019-09-23 07:56 -0700
  Re: Compilers for Javascript? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-09-23 17:37 +0200
    Re: Compilers for Javascript? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-23 20:01 +0100
      Re: Compilers for Javascript? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-09-23 22:20 +0200
        Re: Compilers for Javascript? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-23 21:29 +0100
        Re: Compilers for Javascript? Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-09-23 14:40 -0700
          Re: Compilers for Javascript? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-09-24 11:45 +0200
            Re: Compilers for Javascript? Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-09-24 04:39 -0700
              Re: Compilers for Javascript? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-09-24 22:50 +0200
              Re: Compilers for Javascript? groovee@cyberdude.com - 2019-09-25 12:13 -0700
                Re: Compilers for Javascript? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2019-09-25 13:10 -0700
                Re: Compilers for Javascript? groovee@cyberdude.com - 2019-09-26 08:38 -0700
                Re: Compilers for Javascript? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-09-26 20:17 +0200
                Re: Compilers for Javascript? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2019-09-26 12:30 -0700
                Re: Compilers for Javascript? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2019-09-26 12:38 -0700
                Re: Compilers for Javascript? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-09-26 01:46 +0200
                Re: Compilers for Javascript? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-09-26 20:19 +0200
                Re: Compilers for Javascript? groovee@cyberdude.com - 2019-09-26 23:59 -0700
            Re: Compilers for Javascript? Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-09-24 04:54 -0700
          Re: Compilers for Javascript? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-09-26 01:40 +0200
            Re: Compilers for Javascript? Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-09-25 22:43 -0700
              Re: Compilers for Javascript? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-09-26 12:14 +0200
              Re: Compilers for Javascript? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-09-26 17:05 +0200
    Re: Compilers for Javascript? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2019-09-24 02:04 -0700
      Re: Compilers for Javascript? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-09-24 12:11 +0200
        Re: Compilers for Javascript? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2019-09-24 06:02 -0700
  Re: Compilers for Javascript? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-09-24 19:34 +0700
  Re: Compilers for Javascript? Joao Rodrigues <jr.c.l.js@gmail.com> - 2019-09-24 10:16 -0300
    Re: Compilers for Javascript? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-09-25 23:47 +0700

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