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Oh, I see. Thanks. I assumed the JS engine was written in Rust!
by mattdeboard 8y ago
Oh, I see. Thanks. I assumed the JS engine was written in Rust!
- earenndil 8y agoSpidermonkey will probably never get rewritten in rust, as the safety guarantees would be precluded by JIT.
- bpicolo 8y agoThat's not entirely the case - there's definitely research / work being done in this area. https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/10/20/holyjit-a-new-hope/ https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/10/20/holyjit-a-new... https://github.com/nbp/holyjit https://github.com/nbp/holyjit