One of the stated goals on their Spidermonkey replacement issue (N.B. it still won't fix the view server protocol performance, but at least it'll be a modern en

One of the stated goals on their Spidermonkey replacement issue (N.B. it still won't fix the view server protocol performance, but at least it'll be a modern engine) is "Get my C skills back out of the closet", and will require https://github.com/jquery/esprima https://github.com/jquery/esprima. It's depressing.