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		Sakos on Sept 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser Am I wrong in thinking the only thing we're missing for a rich ecosystem of browsers is a modular, independent Javascript runtime/interpreter similar to Java? Java has a bunch of JVMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines Maybe we need Mozilla (and others) to make an independent Javascript "VM" that everybody can use.

manicennui on Sept 22, 2023 | [–]

There are many:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ECMAScript_engines

Mozilla's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey

december456 on Sept 22, 2023 | | [–]

Mozilla and Google each has one, both open source (iirc). NodeJS uses Chrome's, even.

nvm0n2 on Sept 22, 2023 | [–]

That's V8.

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