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exabrial 4 hours ago

I'd really like to be able to run _any_ language in the browser. WASM is a great first step.

joshuaissac 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Internet Explorer used to support any language that Windows Script Host could run. By default, that was JScript and VBScript, but there were third-party engines for Python, Perl, Ruby, Lua, and many others.

Possibly disabled now as they announced VBScript would be disabled in 2019.

tech234a 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Also Visual Basic: https://news.microsoft.com/source/1996/10/28/microsoft-intro...

joshuaissac 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That was something else entirely. Not for scripting but to write compiled ActiveX browser add-ons.

pjmlp an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes, we used the plugins from ActiveState on Tcl.

exabrial an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This is exactly what we need!