It's refreshing to see more self-made JS runtimes.
I'd love to see if I can integrate it onto Edge.js for full Node.js support ( https://edgejs.org )
Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
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Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
#92I don’t really see how you appeal to JavaScript developers with “small binaries”. What is a 50mb runtime you down once next to a 200mb node_modules ?
Not everyone has 200mb node_modules. Many of us, indie JS makers making those libraries, care in fact about the size of our projects, runtimes, installed libraries, etc. I'd even argue it's more mainstream usage (e.g. even me, when I'm at work) where that is more shipping features than spending time in crafting nice tiny libraries/package. So I'd say JS authors caring about the small binaries is very understandable.
Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ant in JS land is already claimed and huge too lol https://ant.design/
There’s also Adam Ant. Who was also a household name. Some people have also heard of ants of the formicidaen variety.
Yes because those are in the same web development/javascript adjacent vertical, of course!
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ant in JS land is already claimed and huge too lol https://ant.design/
Tangent but what a horrible website at least on my android. Starts as light mode, suddenly shows three streched columns, turns to dark mode and the title is hidden behind the header. After years of being around how can they end up with something like this
Completely broken on iOS as well. Feels like AI slop.
Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
#95It's refreshing to see more self-made JS runtimes. I'd love to see if I can integrate it onto Edge.js for full Node.js support ( https://edgejs.org )
would be cool to see!
Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The engine, Ant Silver, is hand-built.
It’s not hand-built. It’s hand prompted.
Writing code by your own hands is an esoteric hobby. We are past the slop era. This is coding now. If you're 1x, you're not a dev.
I would assume by now most of the code published on Github is hand-built with LLM prompts and armies of AI agents.
Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
#98I can't get Bun to work under WSL1, which is super annoying. Does Ant support WSL1?
Likely not. A lot of debuggers don't work under WSL1 either due to missing syscalls.
I know some folks love the "purity" of WSL 1 but it's really hard to recommend if you care at all about Linux compatibility.
Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
#99The 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.
this page is literally a inside joke, theres a reason /jobs doesn't work (im not hiring)
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Re: Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
#100I’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.
The author also replied elsewhere in the thread that was the initial version but everything has since been deleted and the current version is built from ground up.