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JavaScript | Wren | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Duktape
- Roll your own JavaScript runtime, pt. 3
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How to Create a Modern C Project with CMake and Conan
Im my projects I search for single file libs.(like https://github.com/svaarala/duktape etc...)
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Is there anyway to bypass the limit of rand()?
Use lrand48(), or better, implement a high-quality RNG like PCG or splitmix64.
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Libgrapheme: A simple freestanding C99 library for Unicode
You can also refer to the Unicode routines of other small JS engines[1,2], those don’t use ICU either, although the implementations are mercilessly size-optimized (to put it politely) and restricted to what the target JS version requires (e.g. casemapping but no normalization).
[1] https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/libunicode.c
[2] https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/master/src-input/du...
- Duktape
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Nan Boxing
> memcpy from bytes to a NaN should work fine
Signaling NaNs are explicitly undefined in C11 F.2.1.: "This specification does not define the behavior of signaling NaNs." - and in practice may be "quieted" by conversion to Quiet NaNs, changing their bit patterns. Fast math optimization flags will also break the hell out of your code by assuming NaNs are impossible. I want to say there are more circumstances where optimizers and compiler generated code can butcher your NaN payloads, but I'd be working off recollected hearsay and I can't find a source, so don't quote me on that.
NaN boxing is common enough that, if you take the right precautions, a modern compiler should probably support it, maybe. NaN boxing is uncommon enough that, if your codebase needs to be sufficiently portable, you need an opt out for when it breaks. Let's review duktape's scars:
https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/123d9426d5e5b36d5da...
https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/5252b7a50611a3cb8bf...
https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/224a0b89ca08a36e37e...
Note that "the right precautions" involve unions and proper integer types to avoid optimizer-invoked rewrites of the value and debugging when things go wrong, not simply YOLOing bytes into a double via memcpy. Note that debugging when it all goes terribly wrong can be quite painful. I've personally had the misfortune of being forced to debug duktape being built with fast math optimizatoins enabled on one "rare" platform + build configuration that wasn't caught by duktape's #if defined(__FAST_MATH__) checks linked above (wasn't Clang nor GCC, so go figure it didn't make the same #define)
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YouTube-dl has a JavaScript interpreter written in 870 lines of Python
I was expecting this to be about Duktape <https://github.com/svaarala/duktape>, but heh, for sure no. I'd bet $1 there's no way youtube-dl would switch, but I wonder if yt-dlp would?
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Optimizations Enabled by -ffast-Math
Fast math optimizations can break code like this by breaking isNaN.
I was porting a C++ project to a certain platform - and that platform enabled a -ffast-math equivalent by default in Release (but not Debug) builds! This broke duktape, a JS engine said project embedded, in some nasty and subtle ways. Instead of storing a number/pointer/??? (8 bytes) + type tag (4? bytes) for each dynamically typed JS value, duktape can bit-pack values into a single 8 byte "double" value by storing object/string handles as NaN values - this isn't an uncommon trick for dynamically typed scripting stuff:
https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/c3722054ea4a4e50f48...
Naturally, the -ffast-math equivalent broke isNaN checks, which caused random object/string handles to be mistakenly reinterpreted as "numbers" - but only in Release builds, for this one particular platform, in one rarely taken branch, so neither QA nor CI caught it, leading to hours of manufacturing a repro case, stepping through an absurd amount of code, and then finally looking at the default build rules and facepalming.
Cursing the platform vendor under my breath, I overrode the defaults to align with the defaults of every other config x platform combination we already had: no fast math. If you want those optimizations, use SSE-friendly NaN-avoiding intrinsics - or, if you must use the compiler flags, ensure you do so consistently across build configs and platforms, perhaps limited to a few TUs or modules if possible. This allows you to have a chance at using your Debug builds to debug the resulting "optimizations".
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Can C++ and JS be used together?
Sure. For example, DukTape is an implementation of Javascript designed to be embedded in other projects. Google's V8 Javascript engine (used in Chrome), can also be embedded, see Node.Js for example.
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[AskJS] Do you use JavaScript on Microcontrollers? Which engine / interpreter?
- Duktape (4.8k stars)
Wren
- Tinyssh
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Show HN: Wren – simple yet super extensible task management system
For a moment I thought it was about wren programming language... [1]
[1] https://wren.io/
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Attempting each AOC in a language starting with each letter of the alphabet
For "W" you could use Wren.
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loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language
Bob Nystrom also has a blog, and his articles are really well written (see his post on Pratt parsers / garbage collectors). I'd also recommend going through the source code for Wren, it shares a lot of code with Lox. Despite the deceptive simplicity of the implementation, it (like Lox) is incredibly fast - it's a great way to learn how to build production grade compilers in general.
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Bevy 0.10: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Only kind of unrelated ... Every time I see the Bevy logo I'm reminded of Wren language https://wren.io/
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Are they all like this?
If you want a pure C99 (sadly not C89 like Lua) immensely fast embeddable language pure interpreter, wren is a great language with excellent features like overload by arity. There is a huge maturity gap between the languages tho.
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Most important language features not touched in the book "Crafting Interpreters"?
Check out the source to Wren: https://wren.io. It’s from the author of Crafting Interpreters and builds directly on what’s discussed in the book (essentially a more complete Lox) and adds several additional types, including an array.
- Why does Rust have parameters on impl?
- Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix
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What are some good C programs I can read through?
The best C code I have ever read is that of wren.
What are some alternatives?
V8 - The official mirror of the V8 Git repository
Lua - Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.
quickjs - Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine.
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
ChaiScript - Embedded Scripting Language Designed for C++
jerryscript - Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things.
ChakraCore - ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API. [Moved to: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore]
SWIG - SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages.
sol2 - Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation: