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Am I wrong in thinking the only thing we're missing for a rich ecosystem of browsers is a modular, independent Javascript runtime/interpreter similar to Java? J
by Sakos 3y ago
Am I wrong in thinking the only thing we're missing for a rich ecosystem of browsers is a modular, independent Javascript runtime/interpreter similar to Java? Java has a bunch of JVMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines
Maybe we need Mozilla (and others) to make an independent Javascript "VM" that everybody can use.
- nvm0n2 3y agoThat's V8.
- manicennui 3y agoThere are many: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ECMAScript_engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ECMAScript_engines Mozilla's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey
- december456 3y agoMozilla and Google each has one, both open source (iirc). NodeJS uses Chrome's, even.