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I am mostly curious as to how they came to JS as the embedded scripting language of choice, as opposed to Lua or Scheme or anything else.
by nerdponx 5y ago
I am mostly curious as to how they came to JS as the embedded scripting language of choice, as opposed to Lua or Scheme or anything else.
- bumby 5y ago"They" is likely the contractor. It may be simply a choice that allowed them to be lowest bidder
- writeslowly 5y agoIt would have had to be an interpreter that was available off the shelf when this was being designed (so late 90s or early 2000s?) that ran on vxWorks on an old PowerPC processor. That could have limited the available choices.