racket-lua VS quickjs

Compare racket-lua vs quickjs and see what are their differences.

racket-lua

A #lang implementation of Lua 5.4 for Racket. (by Bogdanp)

quickjs

Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine. (by bellard)
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racket-lua quickjs
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8.0 9.1
4 months ago 7 days ago
Racket C
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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racket-lua

Posts with mentions or reviews of racket-lua. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-12.
  • Lang Lua
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2022
    > On these programs, the overhead is usually somewhere around 2-3x.

    Nice!

    > It's also possible that the way I'm compiling things down to Racket is defeating optimizations, but I haven't yet dug in.

    Part of the secret of the reimplementation Racket on top of Chez Scheme is that there are many macros pretending to be functions. The optimization pass inlines some of the functions, but sometimes the heuristic is not good enough, and you must cheat using a macro. (And sometimes the "obvious" improvements are wrong, and using a macro to force the expansion of the code has a worse result.)

    For example in https://github.com/Bogdanp/racket-lua/blob/master/lua-lib/pr... I'd try using a macro to inline the fast case where both numbers are exact integers, and then call a real function for the slow cases. (Is it common that someone wants to use 7.0 to do bit operations? Perhaps it's better to inline more. That's the tricky part, understanding which is the best split. I'm not sure. Probably only Matthew knows.)

quickjs

Posts with mentions or reviews of quickjs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.
  • Show HN: Happy Pi day with this PWA to cut 100k Pi digits offline
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2024
    It uses service workers to cache static files, by the time it opens up you already free to be offline, try toggle network switch to verify.

    It has download link at bottom of the about page ([accdoo.app/about]) which you could then self host it by dropping into any static hosting services.

    btw, the Pi feature was by-product from the original App but I won't expand here, if you'd like to learn more, please checkout its two Show HN post (39115559 and 39138957) previously.

    [wiki]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chudnovsky_algorithm

    [quickjs/pi]: https://bellard.org/quickjs/pi.html

    [pi_bigint.js]: https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/blob/master/examples/pi_b...

    [accdoo.app/about]: https://accdoo.app/about#releases

    [39115559]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39115559

    [39138957]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39138957

  • Ask HN: C/C++ plugin make JavaScipt end up with C/C++ binary?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2024
    Just go with quickjs, I think this is what you are looking for.

    https://bellard.org/quickjs/

  • Show HW: accdoo cipher web app now fused with offline Pi cutter (100k digits)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2024
  • QuickJS JavaScript Engine
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2024
  • A list of JavaScript engines, runtimes, interpreters
    23 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 10 Dec 2023
    QuickJS
  • Can you make your own JavaScript by implementing ECMAScript standard?
    10 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 10 Dec 2023
    I think QuickJS, written in C, is a user-"friendly" starting point for implementing ECMA-262. Documentation QuickJS Javascript Engine.
  • New QuickJS Release
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 9 Dec 2023
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Dec 2023
    There is a readme on the project's main page: https://bellard.org/quickjs/

    The newsworthy bit here is that the activity seemed to have stalled for year or two and now Fabrice pushed a few fixes and made a new release.

  • GitHub
    1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 6 Dec 2023
    Just to demonstrate GitHub repositories do not necessarily reflect upon a programmers' body of work, Fabrice Bellard has one (1) repository published on GitHub, quickjs. Compare the list of work on Bellard's home page https://bellard.org/.
  • WinterJS
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2023
    > I am still confused, it's a JavaScript runtime intended to be deployed to JavaScript/Wasm runtimes?

    Seemingly.

    > Why does a JavaScript runtime need a JavaScript runtime?

    Because if you want to create a Service Worker server for CloudFlare Workers and other JavaScript/Wasm runtimes, that's the only option for doing that AFAIK.

    FWIW, this isn't a new idea. For example, Figma uses QuickJS (https://bellard.org/quickjs/) for their plug-in runtime: https://www.figma.com/blog/an-update-on-plugin-security/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing racket-lua and quickjs you can also consider the following projects:

TypeScriptToLua - Typescript to lua transpiler. https://typescripttolua.github.io/

Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint

lffiutils - Utilities for generating LuaJIT FFI bindings

jerryscript - Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things.

mjs - Embedded JavaScript engine for C/C++

edex-ui - A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.

Nuitka - Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.

esp8266-quickjs - An attempt on getting QuickJS working on ESP8266 hardware

react-native-desktop-qt - A Desktop port of React Native, driven by Qt, forked from Canonical

v8go - Execute JavaScript from Go

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

bud - The Full-Stack Web Framework for Go