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I'll add a +1 to this very issue. I likewise am not sure if it's still the case, but a few years ago I was looking into contributing some ES2015 implementations
by JosephLark 9y ago
I'll add a +1 to this very issue. I likewise am not sure if it's still the case, but a few years ago I was looking into contributing some ES2015 implementations to the FF JS engine but couldn't get Firefox to compile based on the docs. I get that software development involves some amount of grit to grind out a problem and solve it, but to have to do so right at the beginning of possibly contributing to an open source project was asking just a bit too much of my free time and I bailed and have never made the attempt again.
- weaksauce 9y agoFwiw if you go to their irc server and go into the introduction channel you can get help on stuff like this. The artifact builds are also much quicker to download and compile too if you don't need to change the c++ core.
- zbraniecki 9y agoBuilding SpiderMonkey is not hard at all today: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey/Build_Documentation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Sp... The only issue is that you have to clone whole mozilla-central even if you only work with small part of it. But once you pull it, the building and hacking on it is quite easy :)