javascript compiler?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

I have a program written in JavaScript.

I start it under Windows with "cscript program.js".

I would like to modify it, but unfortunately, I don't know JavaScript much.

So I imagined this might be my "workaround ":

1) compile JavaScript code into an .exe binary
2) decompile it into C/C++ code.

And I will have it rewritten into C/C++ (which I know better than
JavaScript) :)

Perhaps my approach is a bit naive, but maybe thera are any JavaScript
compilers, that produce binary .exe files out of the JavaScript code?


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Tomek

[Mick Sharpe]

Re: javascript compiler?

It would be easier to learn JavaScript

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Re: javascript compiler?

Mick Sharpe schrieb:[color=blue]
> It would be easier to learn JavaScript[/color]

This is what I expected :)


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Tomek

[J Wynia]

Re: javascript compiler?

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:[color=blue]
> Perhaps my approach is a bit naive, but maybe thera are any JavaScript
> compilers, that produce binary .exe files out of the JavaScript code?[/color]

Most commandline Javascript can be compiled as-is using jsc.exe from the
..NET SDK. However, using it as a Rube Goldberg device to get to C++ code
isn't a wise idea.

C/C++ syntax is pretty similar to Javascript. It's pretty likely that
the .js file you're dealing with is either so poorly written as to be
unintelligable on those merits alone or is using a lot of COM objects
that won't be any clearer in another language.