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That's great news! I thought the project had died and that this meant that V8 was the only serious JavaScript engine for the future. For those who don't know:

That's great news! I thought the project had died and that this meant that V8 was the only serious JavaScript engine for the future. For those who don't know: "Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications."

vanderZwan 2y ago
I'm confused: why would the existence of a browser engine affect a JavaScript engine? Don't you mean WebKit/Blink instead of V8? Either way I'm glad that there's a challenge to the browser monopoly and its various technical components of course.
gkbrk 2y ago
Servo just uses SpiderMonkey instead of their own JS engine in Rust. Even without SpiderMonkey, we'd still have JavascriptCore from Safari and LibJS from Ladybird.
- wslh 2y ago
  I don't see the relevancy of the JS engine in the context of a web rendering engine and its independent complexity. The homepage of Servo (basically, a portion of the Wikipedia entry snapshot) doesn't even mention it.
  - kjeetgill 2y ago
    Because the parent-most post from quertox was: > That's great news! I thought the project had died and that this meant that V8 was the only serious JavaScript engine for the future. The person you're responding to was basically clarifying what you want to too.
- fbouvier 2y ago
  And some lightweight alternatives like Bellard's QuickJS (https://bellard.org/quickjs/ https://bellard.org/quickjs/) in C and Kiesel (https://kiesel.dev/ https://kiesel.dev/) in Zig.
  - nicoburns 2y ago
    Also, Hermes which React Native uses.
    - moderation 2y ago
      AWS' LLRT runtime just switched to QuickJS-NG [0] 0. https://github.com/awslabs/llrt/pull/669 https://github.com/awslabs/llrt/pull/669
ai-christianson 2y ago
I thought it had died too. Great to see it make a comeback.
oguz-ismail 2y ago
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bdhcuidbebe 2y ago
spidermoneky has been around since before V8
- diggan 2y ago
  Bit of an understatement. SpiderMonkey was the first JavaScript engine (out of all of them), born in 1996, made by refactoring the scraps of Mocha that was the initial prototype made by Eich.
madeofpalk 2y ago
> V8 was the only serious JavaScript engine for the future. Firefox's SpiderMonkey? Webkit's JSC?

vanderZwan 2y ago

I'm confused: why would the existence of a browser engine affect a JavaScript engine? Don't you mean WebKit/Blink instead of V8? Either way I'm glad that there's a challenge to the browser monopoly and its various technical components of course.

gkbrk 2y ago

Servo just uses SpiderMonkey instead of their own JS engine in Rust. Even without SpiderMonkey, we'd still have JavascriptCore from Safari and LibJS from Ladybird.

wslh 2y ago
I don't see the relevancy of the JS engine in the context of a web rendering engine and its independent complexity. The homepage of Servo (basically, a portion of the Wikipedia entry snapshot) doesn't even mention it.
- kjeetgill 2y ago
  Because the parent-most post from quertox was: > That's great news! I thought the project had died and that this meant that V8 was the only serious JavaScript engine for the future. The person you're responding to was basically clarifying what you want to too.
fbouvier 2y ago
And some lightweight alternatives like Bellard's QuickJS (https://bellard.org/quickjs/ https://bellard.org/quickjs/) in C and Kiesel (https://kiesel.dev/ https://kiesel.dev/) in Zig.
- nicoburns 2y ago
  Also, Hermes which React Native uses.
  - moderation 2y ago
    AWS' LLRT runtime just switched to QuickJS-NG [0] 0. https://github.com/awslabs/llrt/pull/669 https://github.com/awslabs/llrt/pull/669

ai-christianson 2y ago

I thought it had died too. Great to see it make a comeback.

oguz-ismail 2y ago

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bdhcuidbebe 2y ago

spidermoneky has been around since before V8

diggan 2y ago
Bit of an understatement. SpiderMonkey was the first JavaScript engine (out of all of them), born in 1996, made by refactoring the scraps of Mocha that was the initial prototype made by Eich.

madeofpalk 2y ago

> V8 was the only serious JavaScript engine for the future. Firefox's SpiderMonkey? Webkit's JSC?