JavaScript Language Support

JavaScript Support

JavaScript features supported by Higgs include:

• Objects and methods
• Dynamic addition and deletion of object properties
• Prototype-based inheritance
• Dynamically resizeable arrays
• Closures
• Constructor functions
• Variadic functions and arguments object
• If/switch statements
• For/while/do loops
• For-in loop
• Exceptions and try/catch/finally
• Dynamic code loading with the load() function
• Evaluation of code strings in the global scope with eval
• JSON.parse and JSON.stringify
• Regular expressions
• UTF-16 strings and string operations
• Integer and floating-point arithmetic

Language Extensions

Higgs also supports some custom extensions to JavaScript:

• Low-level arithmetic and pointer manipulation primitives
• A simple module system based on RequireJS 1.0
• A Foreign Function Interface (FFI) library