Thanks for the examples, it clearly demonstrates that JS on its own can't even provide minimal I/O. That is by design, in the ECMA 262 standard, it specifies t

Thanks for the examples, it clearly demonstrates that JS on its own can't even provide minimal I/O. That is by design, in the ECMA 262 standard, it specifies the need for additional objects to provide the I/O. The core language is for scripting the "extension objects".