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"Narwhal is a cross-platform, multi-interpreter, general purpose JavaScript platform. It aims to provide a solid foundation for building JavaScript applications
by superjared 17y ago
"Narwhal is a cross-platform, multi-interpreter, general purpose JavaScript platform. It aims to provide a solid foundation for building JavaScript applications, primarily outside the web browser. Narwhal includes a package manager, module system, and standard library for multiple JavaScript interpreters. Currently Narwhal’s Rhino support is the most complete, but other platforms are available too."
Has anyone tried this out?
- latortuga 17y agoI'm confused as to why someone would use this over, say, the xulrunner platform. Perhaps this is somehow different that I don't currently understand? I mean, xulrunner provides this exact functionality (see things like Songbird, an outside the browser music player). I guess having competing platforms is good for all but they have a lot of years of catch-up.
- hackworth 17y agoxulrunner is more than just javascript, it is also XUL and XPCOM, and is meant for apps with a GUI. This appears to let you run just JavaScript as if it were in a "virtual machine"-ish environment.