sucks
quickjs
sucks | quickjs | |
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254 | 7,674 | |
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10.0 | 9.1 | |
almost 4 years ago | 11 days ago | |
Python | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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sucks
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Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project
This is correct, and it's why most open-source software will never have much in the way of users:
> They're written from the perspective of the developers
And I get it. A few years back I had an open-source project [1] get users and it was terrible. What had previously been a fun technical exercise became a pain in the ass that felt a lot like actual work. I was relieved when my hardware broke and I had an excuse to archive the project.
But that does create a huge gap that mostly gets filled by commercial interests.
[1] https://github.com/wpietri/sucks
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Professional maintainers: a wake-up call
It seems like you haven't quite got the concept of open source. If everybody consumes and nobody contributes, how long will that last?
A while back I bought a cheap robot vacuum. Their scheduling feature didn't meet my needs, so I reverse-engineered the protocol and open-sourced a cron-friendly CLI tool and a library so people could do other things with it: https://github.com/wpietri/sucks
Honestly, this was a mistake on my part. It was a demanding audience of home-automation hobbyists mostly without programming skills. The company was thoroughly unhelpful. When my vacuum finally broke, I was relieved, as I had a good excuse for trying to hand off the project. Nobody stepped up, so I shut it down. I just ran out of interest in doing free work to support a company worth billions.
I really admire the community spirit of open source But it's not sustainable if companies making their money off it keep depending on the niceness and generosity of others without giving back enough to keep them happy, healthy, productive people.
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XMPP, a Comeback Story: A Protocol for Robust, Private and Decentralized Comms
I reverse-engineered the comms for my cheap Ecovacs robot vacuum and was surprised to discover that, like some angsty teen, it spent all day hanging out in an XMPP chatroom waiting for somebody to talk to it: https://github.com/wpietri/sucks/blob/master/developing.md
quickjs
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Show HN: Happy Pi day with this PWA to cut 100k Pi digits offline
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
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Ask HN: C/C++ plugin make JavaScipt end up with C/C++ binary?
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)
- QuickJS JavaScript Engine
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A list of JavaScript engines, runtimes, interpreters
QuickJS
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Can you make your own JavaScript by implementing ECMAScript standard?
I think QuickJS, written in C, is a user-"friendly" starting point for implementing ECMA-262. Documentation QuickJS Javascript Engine.
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New QuickJS Release
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.
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GitHub
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/.
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WinterJS
> 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?
cinny - Yet another matrix client
Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint
matrix-bifrost - General purpose bridging with a variety of backends including libpurple and xmpp.js
jerryscript - Ultra-lightweight JavaScript engine for the Internet of Things.
meshnet-lab - Emulate huge mobile ad-hoc mesh networks using Linux network namespaces.
mjs - Embedded JavaScript engine for C/C++
sh - Python process launching
edex-ui - A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.
polyjuice_server
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.
selling-partner-api - A PHP client library for Amazon's Selling Partner API
esp8266-quickjs - An attempt on getting QuickJS working on ESP8266 hardware