Re: JS engine(s) provided by gnustep

[David Chisnall]

Hi,

As far as I know, no one has ported JavaScriptCore to GNUstep. It might not be 
a huge amount of work but that last time I looked at it (ten or so years ago) 
the build system for JSC conflated a lot of things in the Apple paths that 
would need disentangling if you want the Cocoa bits but ELF and the Linux 
calling conventions, for example.

If you don’t care about performance, there are a couple of small JavaScript 
interpreters (jsQuick and DukTape) that would be fairly easy to bridge to 
Objective-C. I played with using DukTape and GNUstep ages ago and it looked as 
if it would be quite easy to add an implementation of the APIs that JSC exposes 
on macOS, but it would give around 10% of the performance.

David

> On 9 Sep 2023, at 16:22, loserism <loserism@88.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello friends.
> I'm trying to use JavaScriptCore through gnustep and found that gnustep 
> doesn't find JavaScriptCore, does anyone know how to fix it? I know I can use 
> other third party js engines, but I only want to use the interface provided 
> by Apple, does gnustep provide an implementation of this interface? Is there 
> an easy way to implement these interfaces that are not implemented or 
> provided in gnustep, other than implementing them myself?
> 
> Lastly, thanks for all the replies and help.
> Best regards.