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Sure. You could do worse than RubyJS as well. This project is implementing the standard set by the reference implementation of Ruby and its standard library. And having used Ruby a bit, I’ve come to find its standard library quite good, as dynamic languages go. So it doesn’t much matter that ES5 features are “more native”—here and now, it’s still a matter of preference.

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I don't really see why RubyJS would be better than PHP.js.

And I'm definitely not saying that PHP.js should be used.

[edit] To be more specific, I really don't see the point of using a third-party library when the native methods are available. IMHO, if you choose a language, you should stick with it.

RubyJS creator here. I was just missing so many (native) methods in javascript. i liked the standard library of javascript and there is an extensive public ruby testsuite that i could use to test my implementation against. Plus i liked the idea of taking something that already works elsewhere and translate it JS, instead of coming up with my own API. IMO it's the same as using underscore/lodash, stringjs, etc, just all in the same library with the same coding standards and interoperability between classes.

What is the license currently? It says Affero in the presentation, but github shows MIT license?

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