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Re:JavaScript at 20 by rjsw on Friday May 15, 2015 @01:43PM (#9552263)
Internet Explorer had a pretty clean API for adding extra scripting languages.
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Re:JavaScript at 20 by tracker1 on Friday May 15, 2015 @04:16PM (#9553378)
And in practice, that separation layer lead to objects tied together across COM boundaries, and severe memory leaks for any significant applications.
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Re:JavaScript at 20 by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday May 15, 2015 @02:05PM (#9552450)
Yes, the Windows Script Host. But I don't believe two languages could very effectively talk to eachother, right? Couldn't they only really interact with the native code stuff (DOM etc.), i.e. the easy part?
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Re:JavaScript at 20 by rjsw on Friday May 15, 2015 @04:23PM (#9553422)
It wasn't too difficult to add an interface to COM from a new language, that seemed the easiest way to call "out" to something else.
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