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INACTIVE - http://mzl.la/ghe-archive - The Narcissus meta-circular JavaScript interpreter
Source code at GitHub https://github.com/mozilla/narcissus
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Narcissus

Section titled “Narcissus”

Narcissus is a JavaScript interpreter written in pure JavaScript (i.e., a meta-circular evaluator), using the SpiderMonkey engine.

Originally a proof-of-concept by Brendan Eich, Narcissus is being revived as a test-bed for rapidly prototyping new language features for the JavaScript language (as well as the ECMAScript standard).

Documentation

Section titled “Documentation”

Documentation can be found on the Narcissus wiki.

Contributors

Section titled “Contributors”
  • Tom Austin
  • Brendan Eich
  • Andreas Gal
  • Shu-yu Guo
  • Dave Herman
  • Bruno Jouhier
  • Gregor Richards
  • Dimitris Vardoulakis
  • Patrick Walton