Or a project which was coded in a mish-mash of JS & VBS, and which you need to make consistent? Have you ever inherited a web-project coded with client-side VBScript which had to be upgraded to work in other browsers? It uses Regular Expressions in Javascript to detect the language constructs and map them to the equivalent in Javascript. ScriptConverter performs a basic translation of VBScript code into Javascript code. Sadly, VBScript is pretty much dead and gone (thanks to web standards, Classic ASP → ASP.net, and WSH → Powershell), and these days what you want is probably already written better in Javascript somewhere. I think a lot of script beginners have found it too, and were disappointed when their copy/pasted samples didn't run as-is. I'm glad to know that many have found and benefitted from it. One roadblock is that VBScript has many convenience functions built-in (e.g.
I was surprised when a few folks expressed interest in making it a community project, which was exciting, but it didn't go far.Īs a result, it looked exciting(!), but is little more than a prototype. ScriptConverter started as a shortcut for work I often did in 2002-2004. You probably don't want to bother with it.I never anticipated this would get so popular.
