Comment by pizlonator

20 hours ago

This engine restricts JS in all of the ways I wished I could restrict the language back when I was working on JSC.

You can’t restrict JS that way on the web because of compatibility. But I totally buy that restricting it this way for embedded systems will result in something that sparks joy

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andai  3 hours ago

> You can’t restrict JS that way on the web because of compatibility.

Well, now we can run this thing in WASM and get, I imagine, sane runtime errors :)

groundzeros2015  20 hours ago

He already has a JS engine which doesn’t make these restrictions

  • pizlonator  18 hours ago

    Yeah QuickJS is great.

    I bet MQJS will also be very popular. Quite impressive that bro is going to have two JS engines to brag about in addition to a lot of other very useful things!

    • alexdowad  16 hours ago

      > Quite impressive...

      Yes, quite! Monsieur Bellard is a legend of computer programming. It would be hard to think of another programmer whose body of public work is more impressive than FB.

      Unfortunate that he doesn't seem to write publicly about how he thinks about software. I've never seen him as a guest on any podcast either.

      I have long wondered who the "Charlie Gordon" who seems to collaborate with him on everything is. Googling the name brings up a young ballet dancer from England, but I doubt that's the person in question.

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jacobp100  18 hours ago

Since you’re on the topic, what ever happened to the multi threading stuff you were doing on JSC? Did it stop when you left Apple? Is the code still in JSC or did it get taken out?