Hi, On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 9:35 PM Ilmari Lauhakangas < ilmari.lauhakan...@libreoffice.org> wrote:
> Indeed, there are engines better suited for embedding, but then the > question becomes how well they keep up with all the new features > introduced into JS standard each year. > > QuickJS[0] appeared on the scene in 2019 and caused a lot of excitement > due to the nice support for new JS features. However, it has remained as > more of a "man throws code over the wall occasionally" type of project. > > Duktape[1] is lagging behind in the latest JS features, but is still > actively developed, is used by many projects[2] and has a very good > Linux packaging coverage[3]. One widely-deployed project currently > adopting Duktape is polkit[4] (moving away from mozjs). > > Probably it is better to invest into integrating a WebAssembly runtime like Wasmer. Not only would we get JS but also support for a bunch of other languages and have support for a platform independent binary execution format. Regards, Tomaž
