Is it possible to make Node.js use Rhino as the Javascript engine?

Question

I use Node.js for several jobs on my web apps and so far everthing's ok.

But the Node.js uses Google's V8 as the default Javascript engine (JSE) and V8 runs exlusively on the x86 and ARM Instruction Set Architectures (ISA).

Now I have a PPC processor Mac computer on which I want to run the Node.js .

To do that, I'm adviced to use the Rhino + OpenJDK Shark Virtual Machine + Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) as the JIT compiler. Currently, that looks like the most applicable way of running Node.js on the PPC ISA. Or, is there a better way to do it?

Could you tell beforehand if it would be possible to make Node.js work with Rhino? Btw, Node.js is written in C++ and I do have the C++ programming experience, i.e. I may attempt to re-edit the code of Node.js if I have to.

Thanks.

Answer 1

There is an implementation of Node.js on Rhino called Rhinodo by MuleSoft.

But you no longer have to use Rhino as a backend for Node.js - there is a recent port of Node.js and V8 for PowerPC by Andrew Low (IBM).