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I wonder if there's room to have a fork of Node that uses SpiderMonkey as a "back-end" in place of V8? It would be cool to introduce competition in that space.
by brundolf 6y ago
I wonder if there's room to have a fork of Node that uses SpiderMonkey as a "back-end" in place of V8? It would be cool to introduce competition in that space. I don't know how tightly-coupled Node currently is to V8 (compared to other adherents of the JS standard).
- zingplex 6y agoMozilla worked on this a while ago with SpiderNode but it is no longer maintained. It was actually based on Microsoft's work to do the same thing with ChakraCore.
- foolmeonce 6y agoIt seemed interesting to me that deno combines V8 and rust. It might be interesting (and not yet as complicated as with node) to make a spidermonkey version of deno.
- ldng 6y agoWouldn't forking GJS [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs] and adding Node compatibility API faster/simpler ?