engine262 VS txiki.js

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.)

txiki.js

// https://github.com/denoland/deno/discussions/17236#discussioncomment-4566134 // https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js/blob/master/src/js/core/tjs/eval-stdin.js async function readFullAsync(length, buffer = new Uint8Array(65536)) { const data = []; while (data.length < length) { const input = await open("/dev/stdin"); let { bytesRead } = await input.read({ buffer }); await input.close(); if (bytesRead === 0) { break; } data.push(...buffer.subarray(0, bytesRead)); } return new Uint8Array(data); }

I've only dabbled with the shared libraries once, with the help of the owner of the lnked repository. I wound up solving the issue adjusting the code I was working on https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js/issues/294.

I have written the same code in C++ https://github.com/guest271314/captureSystemAudio/blob/master/native_messaging/capture_system_audio/capture_system_audio.cpp, Python https://github.com/guest271314/captureSystemAudio/blob/master/native_messaging/capture_system_audio/capture_system_audio.py, and QuickJS (C source code) https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js/issues/294. QuickJS is the only implementation that winds up clipping the end of real-time audio capture.

QuickJS is awesome, simple to use and very easy to integrate.

Over the past few years I slowly built a small JS runtime using QuickJS as the engine and libuv as the platform layer, amongst other things, in case anyone wants to take a look: https://github.com/saghul/txiki.js