QuickJS JavaScript Engine – Fabrice Bellard

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  • quickjs

    Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine.

  • Im am always fascinated by how a single person can build a language runtime. That too for language like JavaScript where large number of features are introduces on regular basis.

    https://github.com/bellard/quickjs/graphs/contributors

  • txiki.js

    A tiny JavaScript runtime

  • 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

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  • quickjs-emscripten

    Safely execute untrusted Javascript in your Javascript, and execute synchronous code that uses async functions

  • If you want to use QuickJS in the browser and/or NodeJS for running untrusted code, building plugin systems, etc, I have a library here that wraps a WASM build of QuickJS:

    https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten#quickjs-emscr...

    I believe Figma uses QuickJS for their plugin system.

  • v8go

    Execute JavaScript from Go

  • engine262

    An implementation of ECMA-262 in JavaScript

  • then you might be impressed by https://github.com/engine262/engine262 as well

  • sciter

    Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development

  • cosmopolitan

    build-once run-anywhere c library

  • Spoiler alert

        git clone https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

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