Why aren't there native Javascript interpreters for Windows/Mac/Linux?

Posted by MebAlone on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by MebAlone
Published on 2012-08-27T07:20:54Z Indexed on 2012/08/28 3:51 UTC
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It seems to me it would be very useful to use Javascript for general server side scripting tasks as it has more or less the same features as Perl and Python. But AFAIK there are no generally available Javascript interpreters for the major machine architectures. I guess the other problem may be lack of libraries but surely these would come if the interpreters were there. Google's V8 maybe could be a starting point. Does anyone think we'll see this soon?

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