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How many runtimes are there for JS? They seem to pop up once a week...
by sgtnasty 5y ago
How many runtimes are there for JS? They seem to pop up once a week...
- singularity2001 5y agofollow up question: how many different incompatible ways to require(), import … are there?
- RobertKerans 5y agoTwo (import + require, which, as import didn't exist, was necessary). Most current tooling is built to handle both (Deno draws a line under it by disallowing the older one)
- RobertKerans 5y agoPractically, number of browsers + 2 (Node and Deno, and Deno is stretching the definition of practical at this early stage). Edit: + Electron + the JS runtime used for Windows ecosystem based on Chakra (not sure if that's still alive though?) + a few other similar ones in that vein for desktop or mobile OS'. + whatever is available for embedded & similar devices, (I guess there will be a few but I know little about that area). + various [highly] specialised business/academic/hobby/PoC/etc runtimes, but they're not realistically things that many people care about.