Yeah, it seemed designed for educational examples, and worked within in a VM. But I couldn't find a way to easily interop with the external JavaScript environm

Yeah, it seemed designed for educational examples, and worked within in a VM. But I couldn't find a way to easily interop with the external JavaScript environment. It was well-tested though and passed the vast majority of test262. MetaJS has some open issues - some related to the fact that it's intended to let you step through code, which I think makes certain interop scenarios difficult (let's say for example native code calls MetaJS code and expects a return value - it's not possible to set a MetaJS breakpoint there because the native runtime isn't paused). I would be curious to know how MetaES fares under something like test262. I think a metacircular interpreter that does well in an extensive suite like that could indeed be a proper, "safe alternative to eval" (as suggested by another commenter).