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Story

Many of the clients I have dealt with have demanded an environment that can be developed only with a "text editor" program without IDE.

However, in a Windows development environment, IDEs such as Visual Studio were considered impossible because they were almost used as essential elements.

Inside Windows, there has been a full foundation for writing apps based on scripts for a long time, but it has been treated as Easter eggs.

Recently, I took out this function and saw various attempts to develop a system app, and based on this, I started the WelsonJS project.

I wish you all the best. Thank you.

Technical limitation

The specifications of the JavaScript engine built into Windows are intermediate between ECMAScript versions 3 and 4. We are using a polyfill library to raise this to ES5 and ES6 levels, but there are a few unsupported keywords.

We know about Chakracore, known as an improved version of JScript, but it cannot be used in projects with web-based GUI because it has not integrated with HTML rendering engines (e.g., MSHTML, EdgeHTML).

However, it will be included in future work because it is highly utilized for special purposes.