V7 VS V8

Nice! A few years ago I took a stab at this problem space with https://github.com/cesanta/v7 ; with fun tricks like in-place compacting GC, stdlib JS object graph "frozen" in rom etc

https://github.com/cesanta/v7

Languages are not all equal nor do they all function in the same way, and that's not my opinion.

Javascript syntax itself is one thing, and you can certainly feel free to Javascriptify some C++ libraries and make it all look a certain way for specific tasks, while managing things behind the scenes, up to a point... but there is no getting around the fact that SOMEONE and some languages are needed to implement low level systems functionality.

the power of Cython or the Python C FFI is that it allows you to script/glue modular native code.

You then state "C++14 may have been ratified 7 years ago but it's not the target code your build chain spits out"

no, a C++ COMPILER spits out assembler code that then gets assembled and linked into an executable.

The C++ or C code corresponds directly to a given set of assembler instructions which correspond directly to CPU instructions.

You claim that Python programming of microcontrollers is mainstream, but this is not true nor possible. Python SCRIPTING of code modules (that cannot be written in Python) is certainly one way to assemble a system from pre-built legos.

If you refer to knowing what I'm talking about as gatekeeping and egoism, might I suggest that you insist less forcefully in the correctness of incorrect things you state? we could be done with this spat in short order if YOU would refrain from speaking falsehoods. lies.untrue things.

I look forward to your lisp c compiler. make sure that it's 100% lisp from the bottom up, or I'll consider you're having ceded my point. Consider that the lisp you author in has a garbage collection system that lisp cannot have written originally, nor has any semantics for the underlying memory structures of, but hey, I guess if one is committed to pretending that all languages are equal for all tasks, who am I to question ones self-identification with a given language.

Behind the scenes: strtod, but I'm not gonna pretend I understand any of that ;)

Looks like these are the two commits, based on the issue number:

https://github.com/v8/v8/commit/0981e91a4f8692af337e2588562a...

https://github.com/v8/v8/commit/a2cae2180a7a6d64ccdede44d730...

Although there could be others.

https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/master/src/objects/dictionary.h https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/Inline_Assembly_Language https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/asm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_assembler https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2268562/what-are-intrinsics https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15971/Using-Inline-Assembly-in-C-C https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48518225/what-are-intrinsic-types-in-javascript https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12168575/executing-generated-assembler-inline

Many of the languages with much faster implementations and quicker development have literal millions of dollars paying for their progress. I mean, look at the list of authors for V8. That's tens (if not hundreds) of billions of tech heavy weights contributing. Java was painfully slow for the longest time, even with all the money and promotion that Sun put behind it.

Source:

https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/main/src/parsing/scanner.cc#L3...

And also this nice article

https://v8.dev/blog/scanner

"The scanner chooses a specific scanner method or token based on a maximum lookahead of 4 characters, the longest ambiguous sequence of characters in JavaScript"

From what I understand, builtins are coded with v8 torque language in .tq files. However in src/builtins, there is no array-flat.tq file. Then where is it implemented?

It must be a fairly large echo chamber since it has room for Clang, GCC, V8, OpenJDK, Roslyn, etc. (The Zend parser for PHP seems to use some flavor of YACC, but given PHP, I don't know if that strengthens or weakens my point.)