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It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's... (reddthat.com)

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

The Cinnamon desktop environment found in Linux Mint uses JavaScript on the back-end. My knowledge doesn't extend much beyond that (other DEs, and what they do, nor the full extent of JS in Cinnamon), but I did look at it at one point.

Makes me wonder if OP was talking it about that in particular or if there's some other project with a bundled JS interpreter they decided not to work with.