brs VS engine262

> Enthusiasts had to create an interpreter for it (https://github.com/sjbarag/brs) to speed up development time.

Author of that interpreter here - didn't expect to wake up to that repo appearing in a top HN comment! That started as a side project and was maintained during spare work hours (thanks, Hulu!) for the past 3 years, along with a unit testing framework that runs in it (https://github.com/hulu/roca).

I'm happy to answer any "developing for Roku" questions that come up :)

engine262

Indeed. ECMA-262 has been implemented using JavaScript https://github.com/engine262/engine262.

Node.js is not the only JavaScript runtime. JavaScript runtimes have been written using JavaScript alone, see engine262. There is also Deno, QuickJS, txiki.js, Bun, none of which use COmmonJS by default, SpiderMonkey, et al.

for an interpreted language like JS, this project is really nice https://github.com/engine262/engine262. More or less 2 parts: parser and evaluator

That is a bit complex, so here's a list of JS engines: if you pick one written *in* JS, that would probably be most useful -- engine262 for example

then you might be impressed by https://github.com/engine262/engine262 as well

Engine 262

It's outside of what you asked for, but here's a JavaScript engine in JavaScript. Might make for some interesting bedtime reading!

Interesting to see a JS implementation written in JS:

https://github.com/engine262/engine262/

(The readme explains what the point of it is.)