# Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs

DevFeed: [Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ejacs-a-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs-38766.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/11/ejacs-javascript-interpreter-for-emacs.html>)

Author: Steve Yegge (noreply@blogger.com)

Published: 2008-11-17T06:19:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Steve Yegge](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/steve-yegge.md>)

Topics: [Emacs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/emacs.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [Programming language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming-language.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>)

Tags: [emacs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/emacs.md>), [interpreter](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interpreter.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [language](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/language.md>), [programming-language](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming-language.md>)

## AI overview

A blog article titled "Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs." The supplied excerpt mainly provides personal context and indicates that the author is writing about work done on Ejacs, but the technical details are truncated.

## Source excerpt

So! I have all these cool things I want to write about, but I broke my thumbnail. Can you tell that's a long story? See, this summer I got excited about playing guitar again. I usually switch between all-guitar and all-piano every other year or so. This summer I dusted off the guitars and learned a bunch of pieces, and even composed one. I was prepping for -- among other things -- a multimedia blog entry. It was going to have a YouTube video, and a detailed discussion of a wacky yet powerful music programming language you've probably heard of but never used, and generally just be really cool. And then it all came crashing down when I busted my thumbnail off. And I mean off -- it broke off at least a quarter inch below where the nail and skin meet. Ick. I just accidentally jabbed my steering wheel, and that was that. I remember reading an interview with some dude who said he had punched a shark in the nose. He said it was like punching a steering wheel. So now I know more or less what it's like to punch a shark in the nose, I guess. There's always an upside! Anyway, that was going to be my magnum opus (literally: Op. 1) for the year, but it fell through for now. I'll have to revisit the idea next year. My thumbnail's back, but it's been at least 2 months since I touched my guitar, so I'll have to start over again. Work has been extraordinarily busy, what with having to collect all these Nuka-Cola Quantum bottles and so on. I'm sure you can imagine. So I haven't had much time to blog lately. But I do like to publish at least once a month, whether or not anyone actually cares. It's been about a month, or it feels that way anyway, and all I have to show for it is this box of Blamco Mac and Cheese. So I'm cheating this month. You know how on Halloween how you walk around in your costume holding your little bag and you say "trick or treat", and every once in a while some asshole does a trick instead of dumping half a pound of candy into your bag? And then he has to explain t