On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 8:42:07 AM UTC-4, Anton Shepelev wrote:

Hello, all

What interpreters can you suggest for learing JavaScript? I
can't seem to find a light and simple stand-alone
interpreter, not developed by a mega-corporation and
distributed as a small executable, so that I can develop
JavaScript programs in my favourite general-purpose IDE or
text editor, without reliance upon a browser or huge
specialised IDE. I need something like the Tiny C Compiler
for the C language -- a standalone minimalistic tool.

Such scripting languages as Lua and Python provide official
open-source interpreters with ready binaries for all major
OSes. Does JavaScript has anything like that?

I looking for a Windows interpreter, preferably supporting
Windows XP.

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Anton,

I know this was a query of yours from months ago. But if you decide to go with the legacy JScript interpreter that Windows/WScript offers, a very useful IDE/Editor is VBSEdit. I've used it for years, primarily for VBScript.

https://www.vbsedit.com/

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On Tuesday, July 27, 2021 at 7:51:50 PM UTC-5, dcwh...@gmail.com wrote:

Anton,

I know this was a query of yours from months ago. But if you decide to go with the legacy JScript interpreter that Windows/WScript offers, a very useful IDE/Editor is VBSEdit. I've used it for years, primarily for VBScript.

https://www.vbsedit.com/

JSedit is more appropriate in that scenario and it's made by the same company

Do a web search for "Adersoft JSEdit" and you might find a usable version.

I don't know if it's maintained actively anymore but an evaluation version can be obtained from the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070206013511/http://www.vbsedit.com:80/jsedit30.exe

Note that VSCode recognizes JScript and will provide autocompletion for a number of scripting host objects such as WScript.
Other interfaces that VSCode provides out of the box for WSH can be seen here:

<https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/lib/lib.scripthost.d.ts>

VSCode won't provide autocompletion for arbitrary dll's though. JSEdit/VBSEdit will. The evaluation version of both are nearly unusable though.

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