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Just a quick one, maybe only for a new Mac comer as I am, I found truly annoying I have already Python , Ruby , and even PHP everywhere available in my command line but not JavaScript ? What The Fuck Even Windows runs .js files natively and since ages, I wonder why on earth after I have downlaoded the whole XCode SDK " my JavaScript " was not there available for all my needs. OK, OK, node.js is already on /bin , linked and working properly, but now I have the system default JavaScript Engine that comes automatically with WebKit or the " IE for Mac " aka Safari. How to link jsc to bin folder A title that produces zero outcome on Google, could be hopefully better addressed via this blog, and this is how I have solved: sudo ln -F /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/jsc /usr/bin The Current folde ris the link to the latest one, all those threads about the ..../A/... folder are not automatically updated if A becomes B , a...

As announced in Ajaxian , I have created Formaldehyde JS with exactly the same Zero Config logic. We put this file before everything else and that's it, Formaldehyde will automatically decide how to show errors in a wide range of browsers: Chrome Firefox Internet Explorer 5, 5.5, 6, 7, 8 with or whout console Opera Safari Logs will naturally degrade until the most primitive alert but hey, Formaldehyde is for debug and development environments, not for production. Enjoy ;)

After I've read Ajaxian post about JavaScript as a command line scripting language I thought it could be interesting to know how to create the first Windows console. The console.js File function print(text){ WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(text); }; function quit(){ WScript.quit(1); }; while(!WScript.StdIn.AtEndOfStream){ try{ eval(WScript.StdIn.ReadLine()); }catch(e){ print(e.message); }; }; WScript.StdOut.WriteLine("bye!" + "\r\n"); The console.bat Launcher @echo off cscript console.js A double click in latter file, and that's it, the most basic native JScript console ever has landed in your PCs - enjoy :)