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Comment by curtisblaine

3 days ago

To be fair, all commercial non-browser runtimes (node, bun, deno) are "just" wrappers of V8 or JSC. Some more experimental ones are "just" wrappers of QuickJS and other less known engines.

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throwawaymaths  3 days ago

iiuc its a runtime because the engine just dispatches one javascript microtask and returns to the runtime with a stack of remaining microtasks

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