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Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

#54

Post by colinhb »

I’m not that deep in the JS ecosystem or runtimes, but I’m a little surprised by some of the claims here about being smaller, having fast starts, sandboxing, performance-competitive, etc.

Does anyone have a sense of what insights, design choices, big bets, etc, unlock all these advantages against already mature and highly optimised JS stacks?

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by steve-atx-7600 »

lucb1e wrote: post #37

Why call it "Ant" and not "Antjs" or "Ant.js" when there is already Ant from Apache? https://ant.apache.org

Yes. You would only name it ant if you wanted to taint the first impression of anyone that’s been coding for a couple decades or more.

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

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Post by quadrature »

Kwpolska wrote: post #53

The author has supposedly created a company ( https://sf.tools/ ), with a broken /jobs page, and yet is developing the project under their personal GitHub account. Does not look trustworthy.

> Does not look trustworthy

what are you implying specifically ?

Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

#59

Post by CharlesW »

colinhb wrote: post #54

I’m not that deep in the JS ecosystem or runtimes, but I’m a little surprised by some of the claims here about being smaller, having fast starts, sandboxing, performance-competitive, etc. Does anyone have a sense of what insights, design choices, big bets, etc, unlock all these advantages against already mature and highly optimised JS stacks?

This project appears to be an LLM-rewritten Elk (https://github.com/cesanta/elk), as noted elsewhere in the thread. That project was established in 2019.
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