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Jerryscript – A JavaScript Engine for Internet of Things

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Re: Jerryscript – A JavaScript Engine for Internet of Things

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Post by dottrap »

I think the objectives are very interesting, but I can't help feel like this was a missed opportunity to cooperate and focus resources instead of reiventing the wheel again.

Duktape already has impressive compactness and is extremely portable. It also embraced Lua's design which is brilliant. http://duktape.org

Re: Jerryscript – A JavaScript Engine for Internet of Things

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Post by sanxiyn »

dottrap wrote: post #2

I think the objectives are very interesting, but I can't help feel like this was a missed opportunity to cooperate and focus resources instead of reiventing the wheel again. Duktape already has impressive compactness and is extremely portable. It also embraced Lua's design which is brilliant. http://duktape.org

Duktape isn't compact enough to run on 64 KB RAM and would need extensive modifications to do so.
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