[erlang-questions] JavaScript compiler for Erlang

[Bob Ippolito]

On 7/16/07, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
> I have on occasion thought that it would be fun to implement Javascript.
>
> The idea of having lot's of little javascripts running in process and
> message parsing
> would be fun.
>
> The first step would be a simple interpretor - from that the compiler
> is easy :-)
>
> The difficulty of wring an interpretor seems mainly to do with getting
> an accurate
> parse tree of the js source into Erlang - the interpretor should be pretty easy.
>
> So now I wonder "how can I get a parse tree of some javascript" - Ideally
> there would be a javascript-parser-in-javascript that produced a JSON
> parse tree.
>
> If such a parser exists please tell me where to find it !!

Take a look at Narcissus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(JavaScript_engine)

-bob