Comment by gardaani
16 days ago
Is this an experimental only JS engine or do you aim to implement the entire ECMAscript specification?
I have been following the Rust Boa project, but I think that it isn't production ready, yet. https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
The aim is absolutely to implement the entire ECMAScript specification. Progress has slowed down recently, as I've been both busy with other things and tied up in making the engine work with interleaved GC.
A secondary aim is to have a bunch of feature flags that allows the engine to drop out support for specification parts that a particular embedder doesn't care about. That obviously fights with the "implement the entire ECMAScript specification" goal, but I just hate indexed property getters and setters with a passion and want to see them gone wherever I go.
Boa is a great project and I believe it is being used in some production systems. I've met and exchanged some ideas with the main developer, Jason Williams, and even received the greatest praise that I could imagine: Boa will (or did?) take some inspiration from Nova on its GC refactoring. Nova has also copied (with proper attribution of course) a few minor parts from Boa, like whitespace skipping code for some spec abstract operations.
I highly recommend keeping an eye out and using Boa if you have the chance.