JavaSc...Engine(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

JavaScript::Engine — a pure-Perl ECMAScript (JavaScript) engine 💖 (this is the JavaSc...Engine(3pm) page btw, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, iykyk 🫶)

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so bestie, real talk: this module is literally just a pointer to JE, which is a pure-Perl JS engine. that's the whole vibe. it's giving "signpost module" energy and honestly? iconic. 🪧✨

so JE stands for JavaScript::Engine. and why did the author name it that way? because following the example of PPI, obviously 💅 — the goal was to dodge long class names like JavaScript::Engine::Object::Error::ReferenceError, which, ngl, was thought to be a little ridiculous 😭 and also time-consuming to type. no cap. typing that out forty times a day? not the main character energy we're going for. 🙈

and then — plot twist — this module got included in the JE distribution for a very specific reason: so that someone might actually be able to find JE when they type:

i /javascript/

in the CPAN shell 🐚, or when they're poking around under modules/by-module/JavaScript/ on the CPAN. like, discoverability queen. the way that a whole pointer module exists just so you can stumble across the real one?? obsessed. 🌈⭐

fr fr: if you came here looking for the actual engine, this page is the map, not the treasure. JE is where the treasure's at. 🗺️👑

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Father Chrysostomos <sprout at cpan.org> 🎀

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and that's a wrap, bestie!! 💜 this page was served up by perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-08-25, and yes, the header says JavaSc...Engine(3pm) because even manpages gotta truncate sometimes 😭✂️ slay, go read JE, mwah 🫶🌸