Turning JavaScript into a scripting language?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Start with the issue body and the linked Scripting News post to understand the proposed JavaScript-compatible scripting language and its synchronous handling of asynchronous functions. Done would require a clear feasibility decision or documented prototype scope; no files or tests are identified in the issue.

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Description

On Scripting News yesterday:

Suppose one were to contemplate a new scripting language that was minimally different from JavaScript, was implemented by a pre-processor (ie it generated JavaScript code), that could handle any JavaScript code or data structure, but -- allowed you to implement asynchronous functions that were called synchronously, both in the built-in functions and developer-defined functions, without using special syntax such as promises or await/async to invoke them. Has anyone attempted that? Delivered?

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