Re: [Swig-user] Any Swig JavaScript user?

[William S F. <ws...@fu...>]

Gonzalo Garramuño wrote:
> Gau wrote:
> > Hi,every one.
> >   so ,is anybody here could give me some clues or any idea for this?
> >     sincerely,
> >      Gau
> >
>
> There's a swigjs from an unofficial fork of swig1.1 that targets
> spidermonkey.  As swig's api changed in 1.2, most of that work would
> need to be redone.
>
> The biggest problem with ECMAScript is that each browser uses its own
> engine (and thus api).  Mozilla's spidermonkey engine is open source.
> IE uses its own proprietary JScript, Opera uses its own linear_b engine
> and Konqueror uses its own KJS.  Safari uses JavaScriptCore.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ECMAScript_engines
>
> In summary, wrapping Javascript is equivalent to wrapping 5 or 6
> languages some of which you don't even have the source code to.
>

See http://www.swig.org/compat.html#SupportedLanguages for links to SwigJS.

William