Whither spidermonkey?
A current project of mine involves some JavaScript hacking. Every time I deal with JavaScript I lament its lack of distribution as a programming language platform. A listing of debian packages for keyword “lisp” (yes, lisp!!!) gets 283 hits on debian/intel, and 22 hits on fink. A listing of debian pages for keyword “javascript” gets 58 hits on debian/intel and 4 on fink (and none of the fink hits appear to be programming packages).
Is everyone just using js.jar now from the rhino project? I wish spidermonkey was more popular in it’s own right. But for years now the spidermonkey page has said the same thing: “The core SpiderMonkey engine can be found in mozilla/js/src. The stand alone interpreter can be built using Makefile.ref”.
Hey guys, make a debian package already!
Link to SpiderMonkey project page.
Filed under: code code, javascript, mike · 3 Comments
The Debian package is named spidermonkey-bin:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/interpreters/spidermonkey-bin
Thanks man!
we use spidermonkey at Internet Archive (to take JSON for the metadata about an “item” and crunch it with javascript (for formatting) to output HTML on the serverside).
so we are using the handy “smjs” tool for this (wish we could just use clientside javascript only, but it makes google crabby when it sees totally a different page than what a user’s browser would see. and google runs bartertown, apparently, thanks a lot)
we loves the spidermonkah!