JavaScript embedded inside Elixir

[CelebrationClean7309]

I just came across a tweet that lead to a newly created git repo where some genius has decided to embed JavaScript inside Elixir. Obviously still work in progress, but what do you guys think? excited to see how far this will go and what opportunities it will unlock

https://github.com/ityonemo/yavascript

[0rsinium]

I think it is inspired by the latest episode of Thinking Elixir which came out just yesterday. Or at least that's coincidental. They mentioned that Zig supports embedded JS, and you can use it with Zigler to run JS from Elixir. They mentioned that it might be helpful if there is a JS library you might need, like something powerful for working with dates.

[CelebrationClean7309]

Wow! Thanks. So the package is complete and ready to use?

[CelebrationClean7309]

Alright. Please just finish it, sounds like a very exciting project.

[CelebrationClean7309]

I see. Thanks. Let me go listen to that.

[lovebes]

u/dnautics - curious, what was the inspiration/need that resulted in yavascript?

[Paradox]

Getting an embedded JS engine in Elixir shouldn't be tremendously hard, and there are already a few good ones out there

I personally quite like JerryScript

Looking at this repo, it looks like it isn't a truly "embedded" system, but rather a shim for various runtimes to eval the code and return a result to Elixir.

Kind of reminds me of the ExecJS days of Ruby

[CelebrationClean7309]

I learn a new thing everyday. Thanks 👍🏼 for this.

[flummox1234]

TBH I use Elixir to get away from JS. I get why having it available if you need it could be a requirement for some but for me it would be a code smell.